linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] script/sorttable: fix some initialization problems

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:52:41 +0800
From:   Yinan Liu <yinan@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org, nathan@...nel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] script/sorttable: fix some initialization problems

elf_mcount_loc and mcount_sort_thread definitions are not
initialized immediately within the function, which can cause
the judgment logic to use uninitialized values when the
initialization logic of subsequent code fails.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211212113358.34208-2-yinan@linux.alibaba.com

Fixes: 72b3942a173c ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinan Liu <yinan@...ux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/sorttable.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/sorttable.h b/scripts/sorttable.h
index 1e8b77928fa4..deb7c1d3e979 100644
--- a/scripts/sorttable.h
+++ b/scripts/sorttable.h
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ static int compare_extable(const void *a, const void *b)
 	return 0;
 }
 #ifdef MCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
+pthread_t mcount_sort_thread;
+
 struct elf_mcount_loc {
 	Elf_Ehdr *ehdr;
 	Elf_Shdr *init_data_sec;
@@ -282,10 +284,9 @@ static int do_sort(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr,
 	unsigned int shnum;
 	unsigned int shstrndx;
 #ifdef MCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
-	struct elf_mcount_loc mstruct;
+	struct elf_mcount_loc mstruct = {0};
 	uint_t _start_mcount_loc = 0;
 	uint_t _stop_mcount_loc = 0;
-	pthread_t mcount_sort_thread;
 #endif
 #if defined(SORTTABLE_64) && defined(UNWINDER_ORC_ENABLED)
 	unsigned int orc_ip_size = 0;
-- 
2.19.1.6.gb485710b