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From: coverity-bot <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Coverity: compat_ksys_shmctl(): Uninitialized variables
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:13:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202004221111.DD985EB@keescook> (raw)

Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20200422 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

  Sat Jul 8 22:52:47 2017 -0400
    553f770ef71b ("ipc: move compat shmctl to native")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1492708:  Uninitialized variables  (UNINIT)
/ipc/shm.c: 1347 in compat_ksys_shmctl()
1341     	}
1342     	case SHM_INFO: {
1343     		struct shm_info shm_info;
1344     		err = shmctl_shm_info(ns, &shm_info);
1345     		if (err < 0)
1346     			return err;
vvv     CID 1492708:  Uninitialized variables  (UNINIT)
vvv     Using uninitialized value "shm_info.swap_successes" when calling "put_compat_shm_info".
1347     		if (put_compat_shm_info(&shm_info, uptr))
1348     			err = -EFAULT;
1349     		return err;
1350     	}
1351     	case IPC_STAT:
1352     	case SHM_STAT_ANY:

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Human edit:
This is technically a false-positive, but it's a weird one in that
everything else in the call graph checks for "err" being "!= 0", but
line 1345 checks for "< 0". Maybe this deserves a change to "if (err)"
there just for robustness?

Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@chromium.org>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492708 ("Uninitialized variables")
Fixes: 553f770ef71b ("ipc: move compat shmctl to native")

Thanks for your attention!

-- 
Coverity-bot

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