Re: [PATCH 6/7] net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c: fix error returncode

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Wed Aug 29 2012 - 21:36:15 EST


On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:49:17PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> 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/)
>
> // <smpl>
> (
> if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
> { ... return ret; }
> |
> ret@p1 = 0
> )
> ... when != ret = e1
> when != &ret
> *if(...)
> {
> ... when != ret = e2
> when forall
> return ret;
> }
>
> // </smpl>

And also applied, thanks Julia. I'll pass these to current -rc.
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