From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA19C04AB6 for ; Tue, 28 May 2019 14:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AD920645 for ; Tue, 28 May 2019 14:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727765AbfE1OZV (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2019 10:25:21 -0400 Received: from albert.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.90]:39122 "EHLO albert.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727457AbfE1OYn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2019 10:24:43 -0400 Received: from ramsan ([84.194.111.163]) by albert.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id HqQS2000E3XaVaC06qQSub; Tue, 28 May 2019 16:24:41 +0200 Received: from rox.of.borg ([192.168.97.57]) by ramsan with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hVd1e-00058P-7H; Tue, 28 May 2019 16:24:26 +0200 Received: from geert by rox.of.borg with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hVd1e-00057Z-4f; Tue, 28 May 2019 16:24:26 +0200 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Igor Konopko , David Howells , "Mohit P . Tahiliani" , Takashi Sakamoto , Eran Ben Elisha , Matias Bjorling , Jiri Pirko , "David S . Miller" , Jamal Hadi Salim , Cong Wang , Clemens Ladisch , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Joe Perches , Arnd Bergmann , Dan Carpenter Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: [PATCH 5/5] [RFC] devlink: Fix uninitialized error code in devlink_fmsg_prepare_skb() Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 16:24:24 +0200 Message-Id: <20190528142424.19626-6-geert@linux-m68k.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20190528142424.19626-1-geert@linux-m68k.org> References: <20190528142424.19626-1-geert@linux-m68k.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org With gcc 4.1: net/core/devlink.c: In function ‘devlink_fmsg_prepare_skb’: net/core/devlink.c:4325: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function Indeed, if the list has less than *start entries, an uninitialized error code will be returned. Fix this by preinitializing err to zero. Fixes: 1db64e8733f65381 ("devlink: Add devlink formatted message (fmsg) API") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven --- I don't know if this can really happen, and if this is the right fix. Perhaps err should be initialized to some valid error code instead? --- net/core/devlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c index d43bc52b8840d76b..91377e4eae9a43c1 100644 --- a/net/core/devlink.c +++ b/net/core/devlink.c @@ -4321,8 +4321,8 @@ devlink_fmsg_prepare_skb(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg, struct sk_buff *skb, { struct devlink_fmsg_item *item; struct nlattr *fmsg_nlattr; + int err = 0; int i = 0; - int err; fmsg_nlattr = nla_nest_start_noflag(skb, DEVLINK_ATTR_FMSG); if (!fmsg_nlattr) -- 2.17.1