linux-kernel - Re: un4i-ss-cipher.c warning

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:08:18 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: un4i-ss-cipher.c warning

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:56:39PM +0200, Corentin LABBE wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the report, strange that I do not have that warning.
> todo is always initialized, since oleft and ileft are always > 0 at start.
> But setting todo to 0 is a simple fix.
> The following patch will suppress the warning.

Nack.  Please do not fix spurious uninitialised warnings in this
way.  Not only is this pointless but if someone introduced a real
uninitialised bug later on we'd never catch it because of this.

Cheers,
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