netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Fix uninitialized variable

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:50:54 +0300
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Fix uninitialized variable



On 31/07/2018 5:21 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> There is a potential execution path in which variable *err* is returned
> without being properly initialized previously.
> 
> Fix this by initializing variable *err* to 0.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472116 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: 0ec13877ce95 ("net/mlx5e: Gather all XDP pre-requisite checks in a single function")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> index fde3502..de2827a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> @@ -4215,7 +4215,7 @@ static int mlx5e_xdp_set(struct net_device *netdev, struct bpf_prog *prog)
>   	struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
>   	struct bpf_prog *old_prog;
>   	bool reset, was_opened;
> -	int err;
> +	int err = 0;
>   	int i;
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&priv->state_lock);
> 

Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>

Thanks.