netdev - [PATCH] net/smc: Fix preinitialization of buf_desc in __smc_buf

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Date:   Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:22:53 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net/smc: Fix preinitialization of buf_desc in __smc_buf_create()

With gcc-4.1.2:

    net/smc/smc_core.c: In function ‘__smc_buf_create’:
    net/smc/smc_core.c:567: warning: ‘bufsize’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Indeed, if the for-loop is never executed, bufsize is used
uninitialized.  In addition, buf_desc is stored for later use, while it
is still a NULL pointer.

Before, error handling was done by checking if buf_desc is non-NULL.
The cleanup changed this to an error check, but forgot to update the
preinitialization of buf_desc to an error pointer.

Update the preinitializatin of buf_desc to fix this.

Fixes: b33982c3a6838d13 ("net/smc: cleanup function __smc_buf_create()")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
---
I don't know if this can ever happen, but the old code handled it.
---
 net/smc/smc_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 2578fbd95664af84..453c54467082d93f 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int __smc_buf_create(struct smc_sock *smc, bool is_rmb)
 {
 	struct smc_connection *conn = &smc->conn;
 	struct smc_link_group *lgr = conn->lgr;
-	struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc = NULL;
+	struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	struct list_head *buf_list;
 	int bufsize, bufsize_short;
 	int sk_buf_size;
-- 
2.7.4