linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug

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Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 16:34:04 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug

There is a potential execution path in which variable *ret* is returned
without being properly initialized, previously.

Fix this by initializing variable *ret* to 0.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1491142 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index d8264ebb9581..362cca52f5de 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ int __kprobe_event_add_fields(struct dynevent_cmd *cmd, ...)
 {
 	struct dynevent_arg arg;
 	va_list args;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (cmd->type != DYNEVENT_TYPE_KPROBE)
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
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