Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: ensure variable ret is initialized to zero

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 05:56:42 EST


On 9/26/19 11:50 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the case where sig is NULL the error variable ret is not initialized
> and may contain a garbage value on the final checks to see if ret is
> -ERESTARTSYS. Best to initialize ret to zero before the do loop to
> ensure the ret does not accidentially contain -ERESTARTSYS before the
> loop.

Oops, weird it didn't complain. I've folded in this fix, as that commit
isn't upstream yet. Thanks!

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Jens Axboe