[PATCH] um: line: always fill *error_out in setup_one_line()

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Jul 3 08:22:36 PDT 2024


From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>

The pointer isn't initialized by callers, but I have
encountered cases where it's still printed; initialize
it in all possible cases in setup_one_line().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/line.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/line.c b/arch/um/drivers/line.c
index d82bc3fdb86e..43d8959cc746 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/line.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/line.c
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init,
 			parse_chan_pair(NULL, line, n, opts, error_out);
 			err = 0;
 		}
+		*error_out = "configured as 'none'";
 	} else {
 		char *new = kstrdup(init, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!new) {
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init,
 			}
 		}
 		if (err) {
+			*error_out = "failed to parse channel pair";
 			line->init_str = NULL;
 			line->valid = 0;
 			kfree(new);
-- 
2.45.2




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