linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Security changes for 2.6.29

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:30:48 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security changes for 2.6.29

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Howells wrote:
> > 
> > Does this fix the warning?  My compiler doesn't show it; of course, I'm not
> > using gcc-4.3.2, but something older.
> 
> Yup, this seems to fix it for me in my quick test. It seems that not 
> initializing the pointer for the error case makes gcc unhappy.
> 

This fix is available to be pulled:

The following changes since commit 
3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../paulus/powerpc

are available in the git repository at:

  
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 for-linus

David Howells (1):
      KEYS: Fix variable uninitialisation warnings

 security/keys/keyctl.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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