[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "block: avoid using uninitialized value in from" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    block: avoid using uninitialized value in from

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b9981bdff26fb96a364b5dedb0e5cdba173a34c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:53:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] block: avoid using uninitialized value in from
 queue_var_store

commit c678ef5286ddb5cf70384ad5af286b0afc9b73e1 upstream.

As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions
that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether
that value was set or not.

block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot':
block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive,
writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has
an undefined result, rather than returning an error.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 block/blk-sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index be7edfc..b3e5ad0 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ queue_store_##name(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count) \
 	unsigned long val;						\
 	ssize_t ret;							\
 	ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count);			\
+	if (ret < 0)							\
+		 return ret;						\
 	if (neg)							\
 		val = !val;						\
 									\
--
1.8.1.2