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From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vdpa: potential uninitialized return in vhost_vdpa_va_map()
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:28:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210907092849.hl56jaog7pouwxdn@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210907073253.GB18254@kili>

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 10:32:53AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>The concern here is that "ret" can be uninitialized if we hit the
>"goto next" condition on every iteration through the loop.
>
>Fixes: 41ba1b5f9d4b ("vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping")
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>---
> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
>index d0c0fedf2c09..170166806714 100644
>--- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
>+++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
>@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_va_map(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
> 	u64 offset, map_size, map_iova = iova;
> 	struct vdpa_map_file *map_file;
> 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>-	int ret;
>+	int ret = 0;
>
> 	mmap_read_lock(dev->mm);
>
>-- 
>2.20.1
>
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Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07  7:32 [PATCH] vdpa: potential uninitialized return in vhost_vdpa_va_map() Dan Carpenter
2021-09-07  8:41 ` Yongji Xie
2021-09-07  9:07 ` Jason Wang
2021-09-07  9:28 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]

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