linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 037/124] scripts/sortextable: suppress warning: `relocs

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:42:51 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 037/124] scripts/sortextable: suppress warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized

From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit 7cbc0ea79da2cbe70d8da9319895f07f872a3190 upstream.

In file included from scripts/sortextable.c:194:0:
scripts/sortextable.c: In function `main':
scripts/sortextable.h:176:3: warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   memset(relocs, 0, relocs_size);
   ^
scripts/sortextable.h:106:6: note: `relocs_size' was declared here
  int relocs_size;
      ^
In file included from scripts/sortextable.c:192:0:
scripts/sortextable.h:176:3: warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   memset(relocs, 0, relocs_size);
   ^
scripts/sortextable.h:106:6: note: `relocs_size' was declared here
  int relocs_size;
      ^

gcc 4.9.1

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...cle.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 scripts/sortextable.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.h b/scripts/sortextable.h
index f5eb43d42926..3f064799a8c3 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.h
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 	Elf_Sym *sort_needed_sym;
 	Elf_Shdr *sort_needed_sec;
 	Elf_Rel *relocs = NULL;
-	int relocs_size;
+	int relocs_size = 0;
 	uint32_t *sort_done_location;
 	const char *secstrtab;
 	const char *strtab;
-- 
2.4.6

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