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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sel_netif_init: 'err' is used uninitialized (was: Re: selinux: reduce the number of calls to synchronize_net() when flushing caches)
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:26:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5750080.46d2jsPKXX@sifl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdV4VpaH1nHYO5hr66Xib5o_Pib863JzGRtg2kYcjMp2TQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, August 07, 2014 12:31:15 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> security/selinux/netif.c: In function ‘sel_netif_init’:
> /scratch/geert/linux/linux-m68k/security/selinux/netif.c:285: warning:
> ‘err’ is used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Should it just return 0, like before?
> Or should it return the return value of register_netdevice_notifier()
> instead, which also returns an error code? Or is that failure non-critical?

Hi,

I posted a fix for this two days ago to the SELinux list (see below).  As soon 
as -rc1 is released and linux-next is back in business I'll be pushing the 
patch to the SELinux #next branch.

 * http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=140727033030054&w=2

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07 10:31 sel_netif_init: 'err' is used uninitialized (was: Re: selinux: reduce the number of calls to synchronize_net() when flushing caches) Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-07 14:26 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2014-08-07 14:57   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-07 19:04   ` sel_netif_init: 'err' is used uninitialized David Miller
2014-08-08  1:01     ` Paul Moore

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