commit 1beb4530b5bf180d8989993d3050fabdf21522cc Author: Patrick McHardy Date: Tue May 13 13:27:22 2008 +0200 [SCTP]: Fix use of uninitialized pointer Introduced by c4492586 (sctp: Add address type check while process paramaters of ASCONF chunk): net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c: In function 'sctp_process_asconf': net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2828: warning: 'addr_param' may be used uninitialized in this function net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c:2828: note: 'addr_param' was declared here Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c index 6eeee53..bbc7107 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c @@ -2827,6 +2827,9 @@ static __be16 sctp_process_asconf_param(struct sctp_association *asoc, union sctp_addr addr; union sctp_addr_param *addr_param; + addr_param = (union sctp_addr_param *) + ((void *)asconf_param + sizeof(sctp_addip_param_t)); + switch (addr_param->v4.param_hdr.type) { case SCTP_PARAM_IPV6_ADDRESS: if (!asoc->peer.ipv6_address) @@ -2840,9 +2843,6 @@ static __be16 sctp_process_asconf_param(struct sctp_association *asoc, return SCTP_ERROR_INV_PARAM; } - addr_param = (union sctp_addr_param *) - ((void *)asconf_param + sizeof(sctp_addip_param_t)); - af = sctp_get_af_specific(param_type2af(addr_param->v4.param_hdr.type)); if (unlikely(!af)) return SCTP_ERROR_INV_PARAM;