linux-kernel - [patch] kexec: potetially using uninitialized variable

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:07:47 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] kexec: potetially using uninitialized variable

At the end of the function we check if "ret" has a negative error code,
but it seems possible that it is uninitialized.

Fixes: 12db5562e035 ('kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 503bc2d..63d1af3 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ out:
 
 static int kexec_apply_relocations(struct kimage *image)
 {
-	int i, ret;
+	int i, ret = 0;
 	struct purgatory_info *pi = &image->purgatory_info;
 	Elf_Shdr *sechdrs = pi->sechdrs;