linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: ioc4: fix variable may be used uninitialized warning

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 14:18:37 +0100
From:	Richard Leitner <dev@...l1n.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: ioc4: fix variable may be used uninitialized
 warning

On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:42:47 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> On Monday 08 December 2014 13:27:20 Richard Leitner wrote:
> > 
> > As far as I can tell 'start' cannot really be used uninitialized
> > here, but for the sanity of gcc output explicitly initialize it.
> > Same goes for the 'end' variable.
> 
> Prabhakar Lad also sent a patch for this already, which was lacking
> a good patch description. Your patch does this slightly better but
> still fails to explain how you concluded it was safe and you don't
> really explain why you initialize the 'end' variable that we don't
> even get a warning about.

Oops, I'm sorry, I haven't seen the patch and the answers to it.

According to the comments by Andrew a simplification of this code
section would be nice. I think it should be possible to do this in a
way that the initialize-to-zero won't be needed anymore.

Prabhakar Lad, are you working on this already?
If not I'll take a look at it.

regards,
richard

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