If this function fails the callers expect that *private_conf is set to an ERR_PTR() but that isn't true for the first error path where we can't allocate "conf". It leads to some uninitialized variable bugs. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Shaohua suggested a different fix diff --git a/drivers/md/raid0.c b/drivers/md/raid0.c index 2ea12c6..f63dbb6 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid0.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid0.c @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int create_strip_zones(struct mddev *mddev, struct r0conf **private_conf) struct r0conf *conf = kzalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL); unsigned short blksize = 512; + *private_conf = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); if (!conf) return -ENOMEM; rdev_for_each(rdev1, mddev) { -- 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