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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2022 15:26:16 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>
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        Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
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        Yu Zhe <yuzhe@nfschina.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: initialize 'ret' variable
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 03:03:31PM +0800, Li Qiong wrote:
> The 'ret' should need to be initialized to 0, in case
> return a uninitialized value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>
> ---
>  net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> index b350fe9d00b0..225ff865d609 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ nf_flow_offload_ip_hook(void *priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	struct rtable *rt;
>  	struct iphdr *iph;
>  	__be32 nexthop;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	if (skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_IP) &&
>  	    !nf_flow_skb_encap_protocol(skb, htons(ETH_P_IP), &offset))
> @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ nf_flow_offload_ipv6_hook(void *priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	u32 hdrsize, offset = 0;
>  	struct ipv6hdr *ip6h;
>  	struct rt6_info *rt;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	if (skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_IPV6) &&
>  	    !nf_flow_skb_encap_protocol(skb, htons(ETH_P_IPV6), &offset))

This can only happen with tuplehash->tuple.xmit_type:

- FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_UNSPEC
- FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_TC

but this should not ever happen in that path.

Instead, I'd suggest to add a 'default' case to the switch, set ret to
NF_DROP and WARN_ON_ONCE(1).