Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210608 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Mon Jun 7 12:23:38 2021 +0200 7b4b2fa37587 ("netfilter: annotate nf_tables base hook ops") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1505166: Memory - corruptions (UNINIT) /net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c: 2188 in nf_tables_addchain() 2182 err = PTR_ERR(trans); 2183 goto err_unregister_hook; 2184 } 2185 2186 nft_trans_chain_policy(trans) = NFT_CHAIN_POLICY_UNSET; 2187 if (nft_is_base_chain(chain)) { vvv CID 1505166: Memory - corruptions (UNINIT) vvv Using uninitialized value "basechain". 2188 basechain->ops.hook_ops_type = NF_HOOK_OP_NF_TABLES; 2189 nft_trans_chain_policy(trans) = policy; 2190 } 2191 2192 err = nft_chain_add(table, chain); 2193 if (err < 0) { If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1505166 ("Memory - corruptions") Fixes: 7b4b2fa37587 ("netfilter: annotate nf_tables base hook ops") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot
