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* [PATCH][V2] s390/crypto: initialize ret to nbytes to avoid returning garbage value
@ 2016-09-06  7:25 Colin King
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From: Colin King @ 2016-09-06  7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Herbert Xu, David S . Miller, Martin Schwidefsky, Heiko Carstens,
	linux-crypto, linux-s390
  Cc: linux-kernel

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

Static analysis with cppcheck detected that ret is not initialized
and hence garbage is potentially being returned in the case where
prng_data->ppnows.reseed_counter <= prng_reseed_limit.

Thanks to Martin Schwidefsky for spotting a mistake in my original
fix.

Fixes: 0177db01adf26cf9 ("s390/crypto: simplify return code handling")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 arch/s390/crypto/prng.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/prng.c b/arch/s390/crypto/prng.c
index 79e3a1f..5592df9 100644
--- a/arch/s390/crypto/prng.c
+++ b/arch/s390/crypto/prng.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static int prng_sha512_reseed(void)
 
 static int prng_sha512_generate(u8 *buf, size_t nbytes)
 {
-	int ret;
+	int ret = nbytes;
 
 	/* reseed needed ? */
 	if (prng_data->ppnows.reseed_counter > prng_reseed_limit) {
-- 
2.9.3

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