kernel/auditfilter: kill bogus uninit'd-var compiler warning

Kill this warning...

kernel/auditfilter.c: In function ‘audit_receive_filter’:
kernel/auditfilter.c:1213: warning: ‘ndw’ may be used uninitialized in this function
kernel/auditfilter.c:1213: warning: ‘ndp’ may be used uninitialized in this function

...with a simplification of the code.  audit_put_nd() can accept NULL
arguments, just like kfree().  It is cleaner to init two existing vars
to NULL, remove the redundant test variable 'putnd_needed' branches, and call
audit_put_nd() directly.

As a desired side effect, the warning goes away.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index ce61f423542c18b1a691d73f4f5d7cc4ca94ec75..1bf093dcffe03e9f97dc4a8e91b4a99bd6f11b32 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -1210,8 +1210,8 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct audit_entry *entry,
        struct audit_entry *e;
        struct audit_field *inode_f = entry->rule.inode_f;
        struct audit_watch *watch = entry->rule.watch;
-       struct nameidata *ndp, *ndw;
-       int h, err, putnd_needed = 0;
+       struct nameidata *ndp = NULL, *ndw = NULL;
+       int h, err;
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
        int dont_count = 0;
 
@@ -1239,7 +1239,6 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct audit_entry *entry,
                err = audit_get_nd(watch->path, &ndp, &ndw);
                if (err)
                        goto error;
-               putnd_needed = 1;
        }
 
        mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
@@ -1269,14 +1268,11 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct audit_entry *entry,
 #endif
        mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
 
-       if (putnd_needed)
-               audit_put_nd(ndp, ndw);
-
+       audit_put_nd(ndp, ndw);         /* NULL args OK */
        return 0;
 
 error:
-       if (putnd_needed)
-               audit_put_nd(ndp, ndw);
+       audit_put_nd(ndp, ndw);         /* NULL args OK */
        if (watch)
                audit_put_watch(watch); /* tmp watch, matches initial get */
        return err;