linux-kernel - v3.8-rc3: uninitialized warnings in net/netfilter/xt

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:18:21 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: v3.8-rc3: uninitialized warnings in net/netfilter/xt_CT.c

Hi,

I get

net/netfilter/xt_CT.c: In function ‘xt_ct_tg_check_v1’:
net/netfilter/xt_CT.c:250:6: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
net/netfilter/xt_CT.c: In function ‘xt_ct_tg_check_v0’:
net/netfilter/xt_CT.c:112:6: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

when building 3.8-rc3 here.

And this time, the warnings are real:

static int xt_ct_tg_check_v0(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
{
	struct xt_ct_target_info *info = par->targinfo;
	struct nf_conntrack_tuple t;
	struct nf_conn *ct;
	int ret;

	if (info->flags & ~XT_CT_NOTRACK)
		return -EINVAL;

	if (info->flags & XT_CT_NOTRACK) {
		ct = nf_ct_untracked_get();
		atomic_inc(&ct->ct_general.use);
		goto out;
	}

#ifndef CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES
	if (info->zone)
		goto err1;
#endif
...

ret doesn't get initialized and if the first two if-blocks are false and
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES is not defined (as is in my case) we do "goto
err1":

err1:
        return ret;

which returns an uninitialized 'ret'.

Now, I don't know the code to know whether if (info->zone) is ever true
but someone better check this before subtle bugs start happening.

Ditto for the xt_ct_tg_check_v1() function.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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