netdev - [PATCH 2/7] net: ipv6: fix error return code

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Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:49:12 +0200
From:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] net: ipv6: fix error return code

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Initialize return variable before exiting on an error path.

The initial initialization of the return variable is also dropped, because
that value is never used.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
(
if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
 { ... return ret; }
|
ret@p1 = 0
)
... when != ret = e1
    when != &ret
*if(...)
{
  ... when != ret = e2
      when forall
 return ret;
}

// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

---
 net/ipv6/esp6.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/esp6.c b/net/ipv6/esp6.c
index 6dc7fd3..282f372 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/esp6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/esp6.c
@@ -167,8 +167,6 @@ static int esp6_output(struct xfrm_state *x, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct esp_data *esp = x->data;
 
 	/* skb is pure payload to encrypt */
-	err = -ENOMEM;
-
 	aead = esp->aead;
 	alen = crypto_aead_authsize(aead);
 
@@ -203,8 +201,10 @@ static int esp6_output(struct xfrm_state *x, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 
 	tmp = esp_alloc_tmp(aead, nfrags + sglists, seqhilen);
-	if (!tmp)
+	if (!tmp) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error;
+	}
 
 	seqhi = esp_tmp_seqhi(tmp);
 	iv = esp_tmp_iv(aead, tmp, seqhilen);

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