linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Security changes for 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812281651480.3082@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:53:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security changes for 2.6.29



On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Does this fix the warning?  My compiler doesn't show it; of course, I'm not
> using gcc-4.3.2, but something older.

Yup, this seems to fix it for me in my quick test. It seems that not 
initializing the pointer for the error case makes gcc unhappy.

		Linus
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