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Subject[for-linus][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200205223404.GA3379@embeddedor

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1491142 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
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 51efc790aea8..21bafd48f2ac 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;
--
2.24.1

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