linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 7/7] net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning

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Message-Id: <1454067557-3546883-8-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:39:15 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning

The tg3_set_eeprom() function correctly initializes the 'start' variable,
but gcc generates a false warning:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c: In function 'tg3_set_eeprom':
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c:12057:4: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

I have not come up with a way to restructure the code in a way that
avoids the warning without making it less readable, so this adds an
initialization for the declaration to shut up that warning.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
index 9293675df7ba..49eea8981332 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
@@ -12016,7 +12016,7 @@ static int tg3_set_eeprom(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_eeprom *eeprom,
 	int ret;
 	u32 offset, len, b_offset, odd_len;
 	u8 *buf;
-	__be32 start, end;
+	__be32 start = 0, end;
 
 	if (tg3_flag(tp, NO_NVRAM) ||
 	    eeprom->magic != TG3_EEPROM_MAGIC)
-- 
2.7.0