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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: cgel.zte@gmail.com
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	luo penghao <luo.penghao@zte.com.cn>,
	Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux] netfilter: Remove unnecessary ret assignment
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:12:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211230121226.GC21386@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211230063143.586220-1-luo.penghao@zte.com.cn>

cgel.zte@gmail.com <cgel.zte@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: luo penghao <luo.penghao@zte.com.cn>
> 
> Regardless of whether the subsequent (copy_to_user(user, &info, *len) != 0)
> holds, the value of ret will be assigned a new value.
> 
> The clang_analyzer complains as follows:
> 
> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:
> 
> Value stored to 'ret' is never read

Please fix this properly:

1. consider adding error unwinding instead.
2. net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c has same construct

      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-30 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-30  6:31 [PATCH linux] netfilter: Remove unnecessary ret assignment cgel.zte
2021-12-30 12:12 ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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