From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch v2] scsi_dh_alua: uninitialized variable in alua_rtpg() Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:20:34 +0300 Message-ID: <20160414182034.GA32469@mwanda> References: <570FBB0E.9030902@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <570FBB0E.9030902@sandisk.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Hannes Reinecke , Bart Van Assche , Johannes Thumshirn , Ewan Milne , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org It's possible to use "err" without initializing it. If it happens to be a 2 which is SCSI_DH_RETRY then that could cause a bug. Bart Van Assche pointed out that we should probably re-initialize it for every iteration through the retry loop. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- v2: The first version just initialized it at the start of the function. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c index 8eaed05..a655cf2 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c @@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static int alua_rtpg(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct alua_port_group *pg) return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY; retry: + err = 0; retval = submit_rtpg(sdev, buff, bufflen, &sense_hdr, pg->flags); if (retval) {