linux-kernel - vmwgfx: Fix unitialized stack read in vmw_setup_otable

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:27:25 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	thellstrom@...are.com
Subject: vmwgfx: Fix unitialized stack read in vmw_setup_otable_base

One of the error paths in vmw_setup_otable_base causes us to return with
'ret' having never been set to anything causing us to return whatever was
on the stack.

Found with Coverity

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...oraproject.org>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
index 4910e7b81811..d4a5a19cb8c3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static int vmw_setup_otable_base(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
 	cmd = vmw_fifo_reserve(dev_priv, sizeof(*cmd));
 	if (unlikely(cmd == NULL)) {
 		DRM_ERROR("Failed reserving FIFO space for OTable setup.\n");
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_no_fifo;
 	}
 
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