From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:35:57 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ftrace: Fix uninitialized variable in match_records() X-Git-Tag: v4.9.40~48 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=198bd494cebfad07c251d9fd26279393c81d8dec;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-amlogic.git ftrace: Fix uninitialized variable in match_records() commit 2e028c4fe12907f226b8221815f16c2486ad3aa7 upstream. My static checker complains that if "func" is NULL then "clear_filter" is uninitialized. This seems like it could be true, although it's possible something subtle is happening that I haven't seen. kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3844 match_records() error: uninitialized symbol 'clear_filter'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170712073556.h6tkpjcdzjaozozs@mwanda Fixes: f0a3b154bd7 ("ftrace: Clarify code for mod command") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 221eb59272e1..4f7ea8446bb5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -3590,7 +3590,7 @@ match_records(struct ftrace_hash *hash, char *func, int len, char *mod) int exclude_mod = 0; int found = 0; int ret; - int clear_filter; + int clear_filter = 0; if (func) { func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(func, len, &func_g.search,