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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
	lihong.yang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i40e: fix uninitialized variable in i40e_set_vsi_promisc
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:46:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200812104628.340a073a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200812143950.11675-1-sassmann@kpanic.de>

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:39:50 +0200 Stefan Assmann wrote:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c: In function ‘i40e_set_vsi_promisc’:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c:1176:14: error: ‘aq_ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>   i40e_status aq_ret;

What's your compiler? I don't see it on GCC 10.1.

> In case the code inside the if statement and the for loop does not get
> executed aq_ret will be uninitialized when the variable gets returned at
> the end of the function.

I think it'd be a better fix to make num_vlans unsigned.

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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: fix uninitialized variable in i40e_set_vsi_promisc
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:46:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200812104628.340a073a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200812143950.11675-1-sassmann@kpanic.de>

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:39:50 +0200 Stefan Assmann wrote:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c: In function ?i40e_set_vsi_promisc?:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c:1176:14: error: ?aq_ret? may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>   i40e_status aq_ret;

What's your compiler? I don't see it on GCC 10.1.

> In case the code inside the if statement and the for loop does not get
> executed aq_ret will be uninitialized when the variable gets returned at
> the end of the function.

I think it'd be a better fix to make num_vlans unsigned.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-12 14:39 [PATCH] i40e: fix uninitialized variable in i40e_set_vsi_promisc Stefan Assmann
2020-08-12 14:39 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Stefan Assmann
2020-08-12 17:46 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-08-12 17:46   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-13  5:28   ` Stefan Assmann
2020-08-13  5:28     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Stefan Assmann

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