linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: initialize variable ecn

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Message-Id: <20110810.220034.1867514011580098205.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mikew@...gle.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: initialize variable ecn_ok in syncookies path

From: Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:51:24 -0700

> Using a gcc 4.4.3, warnings are emitted for a possibly uninitialized use
> of ecn_ok.
> 
> This can happen if cookie_check_timestamp() returns due to not
> having seen a timestamp.  Defaulting to ecn off seems like a
> reasonable thing to do in this case, so initialized ecn_ok to false.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Mike.
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