From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pablo@netfilter.org Subject: [PATCH 2/6] ipvs: fix error return code Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:03:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1346421789-3449-3-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> References: <1346421789-3449-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1346421789-3449-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Initialize return variable before exiting on an error path. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // ( if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\)) { ... return ret; } | ret@p1 = 0 ) ... when != ret = e1 when != &ret *if(...) { ... when != ret = e2 when forall return ret; } // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Acked-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c index 72bf32a..f51013c 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c @@ -1171,8 +1171,10 @@ ip_vs_add_service(struct net *net, struct ip_vs_service_user_kern *u, goto out_err; } svc->stats.cpustats = alloc_percpu(struct ip_vs_cpu_stats); - if (!svc->stats.cpustats) + if (!svc->stats.cpustats) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto out_err; + } /* I'm the first user of the service */ atomic_set(&svc->usecnt, 0); -- 1.7.10.4