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Message-ID: <1525.1470660504@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:48:24 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net] rxrpc: fix uninitialized pointer dereference in debug code
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> A newly added bugfix caused an uninitialized variable to be
> used for printing debug output. This is harmless as long
> as the debug setting is disabled, but otherwise leads to an
> immediate crash.
>
> gcc warns about this when -Wmaybe-uninitialized is enabled:
>
> net/rxrpc/call_object.c: In function 'rxrpc_release_call':
> net/rxrpc/call_object.c:496:163: error: 'sp' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> The initialization was removed but one of the users remains.
> This adds back the initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Fixes: 372ee16386bb ("rxrpc: Fix races between skb free, ACK generation and replying")
Applied, thanks.
David
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