linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stable: uio: Fix warning: 'ret' might be used uninitialized

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Message-ID: <1354541935.7030.20.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:38:55 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>,
	Tux9 <tuxding@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable: uio: Fix warning: 'ret' might be used
 uninitialized

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 08:41 +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> In two cases, the return value variable "ret" can be undefined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
> Reported-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>
[...]

This is not the correct way to submit patches to stable.  See
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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