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Xin Li (Intel) e95534e107 x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
xen_read_msr_safe() currently passes an uninitialized argument 'err' to
xen_do_read_msr(). But as xen_do_read_msr() may not set the argument,
xen_read_msr_safe() could return err with an unpredictable value.

To ensure correctness, initialize err to 0 (representing success)
in xen_read_msr_safe().

Do the same in xen_read_msr(), even err is not used after being passed
to xen_do_read_msr().

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/aBxNI_Q0-MhtBSZG@stanley.mountain/
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250517165713.935384-1-xin@zytor.com
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