[PATCH][next] tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 17:54:02 EST


There is a potential execution path in which variable *ret* is returned
without being properly initialized, previously.

Fix this by initializing variable *ret* to 0.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1491142 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index d8264ebb9581..362cca52f5de 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ int __kprobe_event_add_fields(struct dynevent_cmd *cmd, ...)
{
struct dynevent_arg arg;
va_list args;
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;

if (cmd->type != DYNEVENT_TYPE_KPROBE)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.25.0