RE: [PATCH] netvsc: fix unititialized return value in variable ret

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin King [mailto:colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:17 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] netvsc: fix unititialized return value in variable ret
> 
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It is possible for an uninitialized value of ret to be returned
> so fix this by initializing ret to zero.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1420762 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> 
> Fixes: 163891d7d429 ("netvsc: handle offline mtu and channel change")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index eb7ae79d47bb..f830bbbd8ad4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static int netvsc_change_mtu(struct net_device *ndev,
> int mtu)
>  	struct hv_device *hdev = ndevctx->device_ctx;
>  	struct netvsc_device_info device_info;
>  	bool was_running;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = 0;

This was just fix by commit: 386f57622cc3bbb39b9c00fc8762bc9ab28e0f8d

Thanks.


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