Re: [patch] scsi_dh_alua: uninitialized variable in alua_check_vpd()

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 05:50:47 EST


On 03/11/2016 11:17 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The pg_updated variable is support to be set to zero at the start but
> it is uninitialized.
>
> Fixes: cb0a168cb6b8 ('scsi_dh_alua: update 'access_state' field')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> index 5bcdf8d..e4f6174 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
> @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int alua_check_vpd(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct alua_dh_data *h,
> {
> int rel_port = -1, group_id;
> struct alua_port_group *pg, *old_pg = NULL;
> - bool pg_updated;
> + bool pg_updated = 0;
> unsigned long flags;
>
> group_id = scsi_vpd_tpg_id(sdev, &rel_port);
>
I'd prefer 'pg_updated = false'.
Not that we trip over a static code analyser here :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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