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* [PATCH] rxrpc: initialize sched to false to ensure it is not a garbage value
@ 2016-09-05 17:00 Colin King
  2016-09-05 18:50 ` David Howells
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Colin King @ 2016-09-05 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S . Miller, David Howells, netdev; +Cc: linux-kernel

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

sched will be uninitialized (and contain a garbage value) in the case
where call->state >= RXRPC_CALL_DEAD;  fix this by initializing sched
to false to avoid an inadvertent call to rxrpc_queue_call.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 net/rxrpc/call_object.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
index 516d8ea..57e00fc 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static void rxrpc_dead_call_expired(unsigned long _call)
  */
 static void rxrpc_mark_call_released(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 {
-	bool sched;
+	bool sched = false;
 
 	rxrpc_see_call(call);
 	write_lock(&call->state_lock);
-- 
2.9.3

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* Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: initialize sched to false to ensure it is not a garbage value
  2016-09-05 17:00 [PATCH] rxrpc: initialize sched to false to ensure it is not a garbage value Colin King
@ 2016-09-05 18:50 ` David Howells
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Howells @ 2016-09-05 18:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Colin King; +Cc: dhowells, David S . Miller, netdev, linux-kernel

Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> sched will be uninitialized (and contain a garbage value) in the case
> where call->state >= RXRPC_CALL_DEAD;  fix this by initializing sched
> to false to avoid an inadvertent call to rxrpc_queue_call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

I already have a patch queued for this, thanks.

David

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