Commit 7b26655f authored by Shi Weihua's avatar Shi Weihua Committed by Linus Torvalds

sys_prctl(): fix return of uninitialized value

If none of the switch cases match, the PR_SET_PDEATHSIG and
PR_SET_DUMPABLE cases of the switch statement will never write to local
variable `error'.
Signed-off-by: default avatarShi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatar"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f99c9009
......@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_umask(int mask)
asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
{
long uninitialized_var(error);
long error = 0;
if (security_task_prctl(option, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, &error))
return error;
......@@ -1701,9 +1701,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
error = PR_TIMING_STATISTICAL;
break;
case PR_SET_TIMING:
if (arg2 == PR_TIMING_STATISTICAL)
error = 0;
else
if (arg2 != PR_TIMING_STATISTICAL)
error = -EINVAL;
break;
......
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