linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/iser: remove uninitialized variable len

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Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:21:14 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/iser: remove uninitialized variable len

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 11:05:12PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable len is not being inintialized and the uninitialized
> value is being returned. However, this return path is never reached
> because the default case in the switch statement returns -ENOSYS.
> Clean up the code by replacing the return -ENOSYS with a break
> for the default case and returning -ENOSYS at the end of the
> function.  This allows len to be removed.  Also remove redundant
> break that follows a return statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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Thanks,
Jason