linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sbitmap: initialize weight to zero

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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:20:45 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sbitmap: initialize weight to zero

On 09/19/2016 07:34 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Variable weight is not being initialized to zero before it is
> used to compute the weight sum. Ensure it is initialized to zero.
>
> Found with static analysis with cppcheck:
> [lib/sbitmap.c:177]: (error) Uninitialized variable: weight

Thanks, applied. Strange, this is an old issue, it was just moved to 
this file. It should have triggered on mainline too. My compiler doesn't 
complain here:

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 6.2.0-3ubuntu11~16.04) 6.2.0 20160901

-- 
Jens Axboe