netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: fix possible use of uninitialized in vxlan_igmp

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: fix possible use of uninitialized in
 vxlan_igmp_{join,leave}

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:26:21 -0300

> Test robot noticed that we check the return of vxlan_igmp_join and leave
> but inside them there was a path that it could be used initialized.
> 
> It's not really possible because those if() inside these igmp functions
> would always match as we can't have sockets of other type in there, but
> this way we keep the compiler happy.
> 
> Fixes: 56ef9c909b40 ("vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl scope")
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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