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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst2
-rw-r--r--Modules/posixmodule.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1506ec7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix uninitialized variable 'res' in the C implementation of os.dup2. Patch
+by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 46f3ada..4a1c9f3 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -8012,7 +8012,7 @@ static int
os_dup2_impl(PyObject *module, int fd, int fd2, int inheritable)
/*[clinic end generated code: output=bc059d34a73404d1 input=c3cddda8922b038d]*/
{
- int res;
+ int res = 0;
#if defined(HAVE_DUP3) && \
!(defined(HAVE_FCNTL_H) && defined(F_DUP2FD_CLOEXEC))
/* dup3() is available on Linux 2.6.27+ and glibc 2.9 */