Hi Dan, On 2016/03/11 at 16:07, Dan Carpenter wrote: > At the end of the function we check if "ret" has a negative error code, > but it seems possible that it is uninitialized. > > Fixes: 12db5562e035 ('kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time') > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c > index 503bc2d..63d1af3 100644 > --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c > +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c > @@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ out: > > static int kexec_apply_relocations(struct kimage *image) > { > - int i, ret; > + int i, ret = 0; > struct purgatory_info *pi = &image->purgatory_info; > Elf_Shdr *sechdrs = pi->sechdrs; > Look further, there is a condition at the beginning of the for loop: if (sechdrs[i].sh_type != SHT_RELA && sechdrs[i].sh_type != SHT_REL) continue; So, I think that's ok, but I don't konw if GCC is smart enough not to throw warnings. Regards, Xunlei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html