From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f2211881e737cade55e0ee07cf6a26d91a35a6fe ] Although 'ret' has been initialized to -1, but it will be reassigned by the "ret = open(...)" statement in the for loop. So that, the value of 'ret' is unknown when asprintf() failed. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210415083417.3740-1-thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/data.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data.c b/tools/perf/util/data.c index f29af4fc3d09..8fca4779ae6a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/data.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/data.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ void perf_data__close_dir(struct perf_data *data) int perf_data__create_dir(struct perf_data *data, int nr) { struct perf_data_file *files = NULL; - int i, ret = -1; + int i, ret; if (WARN_ON(!data->is_dir)) return -EINVAL; @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ int perf_data__create_dir(struct perf_data *data, int nr) for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) { struct perf_data_file *file = &files[i]; - if (asprintf(&file->path, "%s/data.%d", data->path, i) < 0) + ret = asprintf(&file->path, "%s/data.%d", data->path, i); + if (ret < 0) goto out_err; ret = open(file->path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR); -- 2.30.2
