Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:44:58 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [for-linus][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug |
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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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