Re: [PATCH][next] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 18:29:58 EST
On 2/5/20 17:24, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
Hey Tom,
> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 16:34 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> There is a potential execution path in which variable *ret* is
>> returned
>> without being properly initialized, previously.
>>
>> Fix this by initializing variable *ret* to 0.
>>
>
> Good catch. Thanks for fixing this!
>
Glad to help. :)
> Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
Thanks
--
Gustavo
>
>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1491142 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>> Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation
>> functions")
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> index d8264ebb9581..362cca52f5de 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ int __kprobe_event_add_fields(struct
>> dynevent_cmd *cmd, ...)
>> {
>> struct dynevent_arg arg;
>> va_list args;
>> - int ret;
>> + int ret = 0;
>>
>> if (cmd->type != DYNEVENT_TYPE_KPROBE)
>> return -EINVAL;