Re: [PATCH] netfilter: synproxy: fix nf_synproxy_ipv{4,6}_init() return code

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Wed Jun 19 2019 - 12:09:38 EST


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 02:53:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We return an uninitialized variable on success:
>
> net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c:793:6: error: variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (snet->hook_ref4 == 0) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Initialize the return code to zero first.

Thanks Arnd. We got a fix for this:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next.git/commit/?id=72c5e11854afb842e157353be0291d65b91725f5