We removed this initialization as a cleanup but it is probably required. The concern is that "nel" can be zero. I'm not an expert on SELinux code but I think it looks possible to write an SELinux policy which triggers this bug. GCC doesn't catch this, but my static checker does. Fixes: 9c312e79d6af ("selinux: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in range_read()") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c index 658247f98dc1..0080122760ad 100644 --- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c +++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c @@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ u32 string_to_av_perm(struct policydb *p, u16 tclass, const char *name) static int range_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp) { - struct range_trans *rt; + struct range_trans *rt = NULL; struct mls_range *r = NULL; int i, rc; __le32 buf[2]; -- 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