Re: [PATCH] audit: tame initialization warning len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info

From: Paul Moore
Date: Mon Nov 14 2016 - 15:22:05 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tame initialization warning of len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info even
> though there isn't presently a bug introduced by commit 43761473c254
> ("audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg()"). Using
> UNINITIALIZED_VAR instead may mask future bugs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Compiler warnings are annoying, regardless of if they are actually
problems or not so I'm going to merge this ... although I'm pretty
sure in a year or two somebody is going to submit a one-liner removing
this because it's unnecessary :)

> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index e414dfa..d161b17 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_context *context,
> long len_rem;
> long len_full;
> long len_buf;
> - long len_abuf;
> + long len_abuf = 0;
> long len_tmp;
> bool require_data;
> bool encode;
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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