Re: [PATCH] kselftest: vDSO: Fix accumulation of uninitialized ret when CLOCK_REALTIME is undefined

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Mon May 08 2023 - 13:37:55 EST


On 4/18/23 04:14, Colin King (gmail) wrote:
On 18/04/2023 11:10, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
Hi Colin,

On 4/17/23 11:47, Colin Ian King wrote:
In the unlikely case that CLOCK_REALTIME is not defined, variable ret is
not initialized and further accumulation of return values to ret can leave
ret in an undefined state. Fix this by initialized ret to zero and changing
the assignment of ret to an accumulation for the CLOCK_REALTIME case.


I was wondering how did you find this.

I used cppcheck --force --enable=all, this examines the #if defined() paths.


Apart that:

Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>


Applied to linux-kselftest next

thanks,
-- Shuah