linux-cifs.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: remove redundant assignment to variable rc
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:34:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfwerze8.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190731122841.GA1974@kadam>

"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:
> You're just turning off GCC's static analysis (and introducing false
> positives) when you do that.  We have seen bugs caused by this and never
> seen any bugs prevented by this style.

You've never seen bugs prevented by initializing uninitialized
variables? Code can change overtime and I don't think coverity is
checked as often as it could be, meaning the var could end up being used
while uninitialized in the future.

Anyway I won't die on this hill, merge this if you prefer.

Cheers,
-- 
Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team
GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97  8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3
SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-31 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-31  9:05 [PATCH] cifs: remove redundant assignment to variable rc Colin King
2019-07-31 10:09 ` Aurélien Aptel
2019-07-31 12:28   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-07-31 15:34     ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2019-07-31 15:54       ` Colin Ian King
2019-08-01 17:00         ` Steve French
2019-08-01  8:03       ` Dan Carpenter

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87lfwerze8.fsf@suse.com \
    --to=aaptel@suse.com \
    --cc=colin.king@canonical.com \
    --cc=dan.carpenter@oracle.com \
    --cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=samba-technical@lists.samba.org \
    --cc=sfrench@samba.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).