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

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Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:39:00 +0200
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.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 01:29:03PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 04:35:36PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > when building a kernel with sunxi crypto driver as merged into the
> > sinxi-wip branch I get a compiler warning.
> > 
> > I am not sure this is the latest version of the driver. It does not
> > seem to be in mainline yet.
> 
> The warning appears to be spurious as the code always ends up
> initialising todo before using it.

Not in the dev_dbg call line 258. If ileft was negative or null, todo
isn't assigned to anything.

I'm not sure whether initializing todo to 0 is the right thing to do
though. Corentin?

Maxime

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