Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8188eu: fix usage of uninit scalar in rtw_drv_init()

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:56:35PM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014 17:44:23 +0300, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:38:57PM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> > > Function rtw_drv_init() is written in a way that assumes 'status' != _SUCCESS
> > > as long as not explicitly set. Thus initialize 'status' to FAIL, in order to
> > > prevent undefined behaviour if going through the exit paths. Detected by
> > > Coverity - CID 1077832.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
> > 
> > This is a bugfix and we like to merge bugfixes without asking redo
> > things, so don't redo.  But really the better fix is to get rid of the
> > status variable completely.  Just return directly on the success path.
> > 
> > If we were to do that, then both patches would be merged together and
> > called:  [patch] Staging: rtl8188eu: fix error handling in rtw_drv_init()
> > 
> > But this patch is also acceptable as-is.  Thanks for fixing the bug.  :)
> 
> I agree with You Dan. I'm no big fan of that status variable either. In this
> case I was already tempted, but saw it as a recurring pattern in that file
> in case cleanup is done. So I decided to just attack the bug in a small change
> and leave the cleanup of the error handling pattern for a later, consistent
> sweep over the whole file if that's wanted.

It's a mistake to try be consistent with the crap code in the rest of
this file.  ;)  Next time just fix it so at least a couple lines in here
are not terrible.

regards,
dan carpenter