[PATCH][SRU][X] scsi_dh_alua: uninitialized variable in alua_rtpg()

Dragan Stancevic dragan.stancevic at canonical.com
Wed Nov 29 23:19:41 UTC 2017


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720228

It's possible to use "err" without initializing it.  If it happens to be
a 2 which is SCSI_DH_RETRY then that could cause a bug.  Bart Van Assche
pointed out that we should probably re-initialize it for every iteration
through the retry loop.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinicke <hare at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
(cherry picked from commit a4bd85203190990ad808abbd4a5dc848a950002c)
Signed-off-by: Dragan Stancevic <dragan.stancevic at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
index 8eaed05..a655cf2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static int alua_rtpg(struct scsi_device *sdev,
struct alua_port_group *pg)
                return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY;

  retry:
+       err = 0;
        retval = submit_rtpg(sdev, buff, bufflen, &sense_hdr, pg->flags);

        if (retval) {
-- 
2.7.4




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