From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:21:18 +0000 (+0300) Subject: selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable bug X-Git-Tag: v4.12-rc1~123^2~6^2 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cae303df3f379f04ce7efadb2e30de460918b302;p=linux.git selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable bug We removed this initialization as a cleanup but it is probably required. The concern is that "nel" can be zero. I'm not an expert on SELinux code but I think it looks possible to write an SELinux policy which triggers this bug. GCC doesn't catch this, but my static checker does. Fixes: 9c312e79d6af ("selinux: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in range_read()") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore --- diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c index 658247f98dc1..0080122760ad 100644 --- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c +++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c @@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ u32 string_to_av_perm(struct policydb *p, u16 tclass, const char *name) static int range_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp) { - struct range_trans *rt; + struct range_trans *rt = NULL; struct mls_range *r = NULL; int i, rc; __le32 buf[2];