netdev - [PATCH] NET: Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:02:48 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] NET: Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag_reasm()

Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag_reasm().  err should be set to -ENOMEM
if the initial call of skb_clone() fails.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
index 443b3f8..4629dad 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ static int ip_frag_reasm(struct ipq *qp, struct sk_buff *prev,
 	if (prev) {
 		head = prev->next;
 		fp = skb_clone(head, GFP_ATOMIC);
-
 		if (!fp)
 			goto out_nomem;
 
@@ -571,7 +570,6 @@ static int ip_frag_reasm(struct ipq *qp, struct sk_buff *prev,
 		goto out_oversize;
 
 	/* Head of list must not be cloned. */
-	err = -ENOMEM;
 	if (skb_cloned(head) && pskb_expand_head(head, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
 		goto out_nomem;
 
@@ -627,6 +625,7 @@ static int ip_frag_reasm(struct ipq *qp, struct sk_buff *prev,
 out_nomem:
 	LIMIT_NETDEBUG(KERN_ERR "IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing "
 			      "queue %p\n", qp);
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	goto out_fail;
 out_oversize:
 	if (net_ratelimit())

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