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From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigelcunningham.com.au>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2] Re: New Defect(s) reported by Coverity Scan
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:58:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E250C8.2070101@nigelcunningham.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0A4ACBB26D853488EA0C68388B70268168CDC32@BLUPRD0511MB401.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>

 From 68e866b8eac534405ae16b79b7ffd9de05c11c67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigelcunningham.com.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:50:22 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix uninitialised variable in rbd_dev_probe_update_spec.

The local variable ret can be used uninitialised in the error path
if the kstrdup at line 2631 fails. Set ret to -ENOMEM in that case.

This patch addresses Coverity #753111.

Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigelcunningham.com.au>
---
  drivers/block/rbd.c |    4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
index dfb7ef8..ba4dd66 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -2629,8 +2629,10 @@ static int rbd_dev_probe_update_spec(struct 
rbd_device *rbd_dev)
          goto out_err;
      }
      rbd_dev->spec->snap_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
-    if(!rbd_dev->spec->snap_name)
+    if(!rbd_dev->spec->snap_name) {
+        ret = -ENOMEM;
          goto out_err;
+    }

      return 0;
  out_err:
-- 
1.7.10.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-01  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-01  0:13 Scan Subscription
2013-01-01  2:37 ` [PATCH] " Nigel Cunningham
2013-01-01  2:58 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2013-01-01  2:59 ` [PATCH 3] " Nigel Cunningham

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