From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
hadarh@mellanox.com, jiri@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] net_sched: fix use of uninitialized ethertype variable in cls_flower
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:30:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829.003056.872235296198766893.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826152546.604384-5-arnd@arndb.de>
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:25:45 +0200
> The addition of VLAN support caused a possible use of uninitialized
> data if we encounter a zero TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ETH_TYPE key, as pointed
> out by "gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized":
>
> net/sched/cls_flower.c: In function 'fl_change':
> net/sched/cls_flower.c:366:22: error: 'ethertype' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This changes the code to only set the ethertype field if it
> was nonzero, as before the patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 9399ae9a6cb2 ("net_sched: flower: Add vlan support")
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 15:25 [PATCH 0/5] -Wmaybe-uninitialized bug fixes for linux-next Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-26 15:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] rxrpc: fix last_call processing Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-27 7:01 ` David Howells
2016-08-28 8:42 ` David Howells
2016-08-31 11:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-31 20:58 ` David Howells
2016-08-26 15:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] net_sched: fix use of uninitialized ethertype variable in cls_flower Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-29 4:30 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-08-26 15:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] net/xgene: fix error handling during reset Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-29 4:31 ` David Miller
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