Re: [PATCH] selinux: remove duplicated initialization of 'i' for clean-up

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 10:46:46 EST


On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:22 PM Austin Kim <austindh.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> The local variable 'i' is used to be incremented inside while loop
> within sidtab_convert_tree(). Before while loop, 'i' is set to 0
> inside if/else statement.
>
> Since there is no 'goto' statement within sidtab_convert_tree(),
> it had better initialize 'i' as 0 once before if/else statement.
>
> Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Let's leave the existing code as-is for now.

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paul moore
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