linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix shadowed variable ret return code being not checked

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Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 10:21:47 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix shadowed variable ret return code being not
 checked

On 5/5/19 4:01 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently variable ret is declared in a while-loop code block that
> shadows another variable ret. When an error occurs in the while-loop
> the error return in ret is not being set in the outer code block and
> so the error check on ret is always going to be checking on the wrong
> ret variable resulting in check that is always going to be true and
> a premature return occurs.
> 
> Fix this by removing the declaration of the inner while-loop variable
> ret so that shadowing does not occur.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe