From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:08:04 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: net/passt: Initialize "error" variable in net_passt_send() (CID 1612368)
X-Git-Tag: v10.1.0-rc0~8^2~1
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net/passt: Initialize "error" variable in net_passt_send() (CID 1612368)

This was flagged by Coverity as a memory illegal access.

Initialize the pointer to NULL at declaration.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/net/passt.c b/net/passt.c
index 43c336e596..32ecffb763 100644
--- a/net/passt.c
+++ b/net/passt.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static gboolean net_passt_send(QIOChannel *ioc, GIOCondition condition,
 {
     if (net_stream_data_send(ioc, condition, data) == G_SOURCE_REMOVE) {
         NetPasstState *s = DO_UPCAST(NetPasstState, data, data);
-        Error *error;
+        Error *error = NULL;
 
         /* we need to restart passt */
         kill(s->pid, SIGTERM);