linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2] md/raid0: fix uninitialized variable bug

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Message-ID: <20160414165700.GA2006@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:57:00 -0700
From:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] md/raid0: fix uninitialized variable bug

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:31:49PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If this function fails the callers expect that *private_conf is set to
> an ERR_PTR() but that isn't true for the first error path where we can't
> allocate "conf".  It leads to some uninitialized variable bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks!