netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] test_objagg: Uninitialized variable in error handling

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:13:48 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     jiri@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] test_objagg: Uninitialized variable in
 error handling

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:59:31 +0300

> We need to set the error message on this path otherwise some of the
> callers, such as test_hints_case(), print from an uninitialized pointer.
> 
> We had a similar bug earlier and set "errmsg" to NULL in the caller,
> test_delta_action_item().  That code is no longer required so I have
> removed it.
> 
> Fixes: 9069a3817d82 ("lib: objagg: implement optimization hints assembly and use hints for object creation")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.