Aug 29 2012

netfilter: nfnetlink_log: fix error return code in init path 

Author: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

Initialize return variable before exiting on an error path.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
(
if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
 { ... return ret; }
|
ret@p1 = 0
)
... when != ret = e1
    when != &ret
*if(...)
{
  ... when != ret = e2
      when forall
 return ret;
}

// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 

---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index 592091c1..14e2f39 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -996,8 +996,10 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_log_init(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 	if (!proc_create("nfnetlink_log", 0440,
-			 proc_net_netfilter, &nful_file_ops))
+			 proc_net_netfilter, &nful_file_ops)) {
+		status = -ENOMEM;
 		goto cleanup_logger;
+	}
 #endif
 	return status;

qlambert