netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Fix uninitialized variable in debugfs

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Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:11:13 +0530
From:   Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Fix uninitialized variable in debugfs

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:53 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> If rvu_get_blkaddr() fails, then this rvu_cgx_nix_cuml_stats() returns
> zero and we write some uninitialized data into the debugfs output.
>
> On the error paths, the use of the uninitialized "*stat" is harmless,
> but it will lead to a Smatch warning (static analysis) and a UBSan
> warning (runtime analysis) so we should prevent that as well.
>

Thanks for the fix.

Thanks,
Sunil.