linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] atm: fore200e.c: fix uninitialized variable

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Message-Id: <20130114.183009.826634301471863252.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:30:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dinggnu@...il.com
Cc:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: fore200e.c: fix uninitialized variable

From: Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:57:43 +0000

> the variable err is uninitialized if all the macros in the function are
> disabled.

Which is never possible because of the Kconfig dependencies.

This is what happens when you focus to narrowly on a piece of
code, you take no context whatsoever into consideration.
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