[PATCH] staging: binder: fix usage of uninit scalar in binder_transaction()

Christian Engelmayer cengelma at gmx.at
Sat May 3 23:15:49 UTC 2014


Fix the error path when a cookie mismatch is detected. In that case the
function jumps to the exit label without setting the uninitialized, local
variable 'return_error'. Detected by Coverity - CID 201453.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma at gmx.at>
---
Compile tested and applies against branch staging-next of tree
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
---
 drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
index 1f5e249..ca1b0e3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
@@ -1529,6 +1529,7 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc,
 					proc->pid, thread->pid,
 					(u64)fp->binder, node->debug_id,
 					(u64)fp->cookie, (u64)node->cookie);
+				return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
 				goto err_binder_get_ref_for_node_failed;
 			}
 			ref = binder_get_ref_for_node(target_proc, node);
-- 
1.9.1
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