linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want'

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:29:20 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want'

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> The boolean want is not initialized and hence garbage. The default should
> be false (later it is only set to true on tne sinfo->authattrs check).
> 
> Found with static analysis using CoverityScan
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.