[PATCH 2] Re: New Defect(s) reported by Coverity Scan

[Nigel Cunningham]

From 68e866b8eac534405ae16b79b7ffd9de05c11c67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:50:22 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix uninitialised variable in rbd_dev_probe_update_spec.

The local variable ret can be used uninitialised in the error path
if the kstrdup at line 2631 fails. Set ret to -ENOMEM in that case.

This patch addresses Coverity #753111.

Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/block/rbd.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
index dfb7ef8..ba4dd66 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -2629,8 +2629,10 @@ static int rbd_dev_probe_update_spec(struct 
rbd_device *rbd_dev)
         goto out_err;
     }
     rbd_dev->spec->snap_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
-    if(!rbd_dev->spec->snap_name)
+    if(!rbd_dev->spec->snap_name) {
+        ret = -ENOMEM;
         goto out_err;
+    }

     return 0;
 out_err:
--
1.7.10.4

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