From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751527AbdGQQDm (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:03:42 -0400 Received: from b.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.144]:44723 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbdGQQDg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:03:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ubifs: fix uninitialized error variable err To: Colin King , Artem Bityutskiy , Adrian Hunter , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hyc.lee@gmail.com, Geert Uytterhoeven References: <20170717160001.20285-1-colin.king@canonical.com> From: Richard Weinberger Message-ID: <07004331-e62a-7c02-97db-bc69f8256c9b@nod.at> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:03:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170717160001.20285-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Colin, Am 17.07.2017 um 18:00 schrieb Colin King: > From: Colin Ian King > > Variable err is not initialized and so the check to see if it is > non-zero is basically checking a random garbage value. Fix this > by initializing err to zero. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1451370 ("Uninitialized variable") > > Fixes: 781f675e2d7e ("ubifs: Fix unlink code wrt. double hash lookups") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Thanks, geert already pointed out that I've merged a bad patch. I managed to merge the patch without the issues fixed that Hyunchul Lee identified. ;-( Thanks, //richard