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Re: [PATCH] audit: tame initialization warning len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info

From Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] audit: tame initialization warning len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info
Date 2016-11-15 10:00 +0100
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On 2016-11-14 15:21, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Tame initialization warning of len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info even
> > though there isn't presently a bug introduced by commit 43761473c254
> > ("audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg()").  Using
> > UNINITIALIZED_VAR instead may mask future bugs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/auditsc.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Compiler warnings are annoying, regardless of if they are actually
> problems or not so I'm going to merge this ... although I'm pretty
> sure in a year or two somebody is going to submit a one-liner removing
> this because it's unnecessary :)

Unnecessary on some versions of some compilers...

> > diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > index e414dfa..d161b17 100644
> > --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> > +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_context *context,
> >         long len_rem;
> >         long len_full;
> >         long len_buf;
> > -       long len_abuf;
> > +       long len_abuf = 0;
> >         long len_tmp;
> >         bool require_data;
> >         bool encode;

- RGB

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Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
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Re: [PATCH] audit: tame initialization warning len_abuf in audit_log_execve_info Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> - 2016-11-14 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] audit: tame initialization warning len_abuf in  audit_log_execve_info Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> - 2016-11-15 10:00 +0100

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