On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:43:06AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> net/core/sock.c: In function 'sock_update_classid':
> include/net/cls_cgroup.h:42: warning: 'classid' may be used uninitialized in this function
> include/net/cls_cgroup.h:42: note: 'classid' was declared here
>
> In the case that rcu_dereference() returns a value < 0, classid will not
> be assigned in task_cls_classid(). I don't know if this is possible - if
> not, then why is the test there?
This is a genuine bug. I don't know why my gcc didn't warn about
it.
cls_cgroup: Initialise classid when module is absent
When the cls_cgroup module is not loaded, task_cls_classid will
return an uninitialised classid instead of zero.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/net/cls_cgroup.h b/include/net/cls_cgroup.h
index 6cf4486..726cc35 100644
--- a/include/net/cls_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/net/cls_cgroup.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ extern int net_cls_subsys_id;
static inline u32 task_cls_classid(struct task_struct *p)
{
int id;
- u32 classid;
+ u32 classid = 0;
if (in_interrupt())
return 0;
Thanks,
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