From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751113AbWCRXKo (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:10:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751114AbWCRXKo (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:10:44 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([64.109.89.108]:47060 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbWCRXKn (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:10:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix potential return of uninitialized variable in scsi_scan (resend) From: James Bottomley To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Youngdale , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200603182242.52507.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> References: <200603182242.52507.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:10:33 -0600 Message-Id: <1142723433.3773.16.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 22:42 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > ( The patch below was already send on March 9, 2006. ) > ( This is a resend, re-diff'ed against 2.6.16-rc6 ) > > > The coverity checker found out that we potentially return sdev uninitialized. > This should fix coverity #879 The fix for this is already in scsi-misc. http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a97a83a06b44d4d1cb01191423caf9813a150b95 James