From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k•org>
Cc: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel•com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com>,
"Mohit P . Tahiliani" <tahiliani@nitk•edu.in>,
Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi•jp>,
Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox•com>,
Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm•io>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox•com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>,
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch•de>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex•cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse•com>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle•com>,
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linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] [RFC] devlink: Fix uninitialized error code in devlink_fmsg_prepare_skb()
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 10:04:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190529080452.GE2252@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190528142424.19626-6-geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:24:24PM CEST, geert@linux-m68k•org wrote:
>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 <geert@linux-m68k•org>
>---
>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?
0 is correct here.
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox•com>
Thanks!
>---
> 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
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-29 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-28 14:24 [PATCH 0/5] Assorted fixes discovered with gcc 4.1 Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] lightnvm: Fix uninitialized pointer in nvm_remove_tgt() Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-29 8:08 ` Matias Bjørling
2019-05-29 8:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] rxrpc: Fix uninitialized error code in rxrpc_send_data_packet() Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-28 16:30 ` David Howells
2019-05-29 11:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-31 10:34 ` [PATCH] " David Howells
2019-06-03 21:30 ` David Miller
2019-06-04 7:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-04 7:34 ` David Howells
2019-06-04 7:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] net: sched: pie: Use ULL suffix for 64-bit constant Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-29 11:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 4/5] ALSA: fireface: Use ULL suffixes for 64-bit constants Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-29 9:57 ` Takashi Sakamoto
2019-05-29 10:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2019-05-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] [RFC] devlink: Fix uninitialized error code in devlink_fmsg_prepare_skb() Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-05-28 14:40 ` Eran Ben Elisha
2019-05-29 8:04 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
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