linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: Pass value of ctinfo to __nf_conntrack

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 11:52:35 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: Pass value of ctinfo to
 __nf_conntrack_update

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 01:10:39AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
> 
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2068:21: warning: variable 'ctinfo' is
> uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>         nf_ct_set(skb, ct, ctinfo);
>                            ^~~~~~
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2024:2: note: variable 'ctinfo' is
> declared here
>         enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
>         ^
> 1 warning generated.
> 
> nf_conntrack_update was split up into nf_conntrack_update and
> __nf_conntrack_update, where the assignment of ctifno is in
> nf_conntrack_update but it is used in __nf_conntrack_update.
> 
> Pass the value of ctinfo from nf_conntrack_update to
> __nf_conntrack_update so that uninitialized memory is not used
> and everything works properly.

Applied, thanks.