selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable bug in range_read()

[SF Markus Elfring]

>>> We removed this initialization as a cleanup but it is probably
>>> required.
>>>
>>> The concern is that "nel" can be zero.  I'm not an expert on SELinux
>>> code but I think it looks possible to write an SELinux policy which
>>> triggers this bug.  GCC doesn't catch this, but my static checker
>>> does.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 9c312e79d6af ("selinux: Delete an unnecessary variable
>>> initialisation in range_read()")
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>>
>> Nice catch, thanks!
>>
>> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
> 
> Yes, indeed.  Thanks Dan, I should have caught this when merging Markus' patch.

How do you think about the possibility to call the function “range_read” only with
a system configuration where the interface “le32_to_cpu” will be resolved to
a positive value so that statements in the corresponding for loop will be executed
at least once?

Regards,
Markus
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