From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently, in the unlikely case when the dyn_event_ops_list list is empty then ret is never assigned a value and the function will return with a uninitialized garbage return value from ret. Fix this corner case by setting ret to zero. Fixes: 5448d44c3855 ("tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c index dd1f43588d70..4f633476c307 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct dyn_event_operations *type) static int create_dyn_event(int argc, char **argv) { struct dyn_event_operations *ops; - int ret; + int ret = 0; if (argv[0][0] == '-' || argv[0][0] == '!') return dyn_event_release(argc, argv, NULL); -- 2.19.1