* [PATCH 5.6 09/29] padata: fix uninitialized return value in padata_replace()
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@ 2020-04-07 10:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2020-04-07 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, stable, Geert Uytterhoeven, Daniel Jordan,
Herbert Xu, Steffen Klassert, linux-crypto, Sasha Levin
From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
[ Upstream commit 41ccdbfd5427bbbf3ed58b16750113b38fad1780 ]
According to Geert's report[0],
kernel/padata.c: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this
function [-Wuninitialized]: => 539:2
Warning is seen only with older compilers on certain archs. The
runtime effect is potentially returning garbage down the stack when
padata's cpumasks are modified before any pcrypt requests have run.
Simplest fix is to initialize err to the success value.
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200210135506.11536-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: bbefa1dd6a6d ("crypto: pcrypt - Avoid deadlock by using per-instance padata queues")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/padata.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 72777c10bb9cb..62082597d4a2a 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int padata_replace_one(struct padata_shell *ps)
static int padata_replace(struct padata_instance *pinst)
{
struct padata_shell *ps;
- int err;
+ int err = 0;
pinst->flags |= PADATA_RESET;
--
2.20.1
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