linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/28] [v2] infiniband: shut up a maybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:18:55 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Haggai Eran <haggaie@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>,
        Alex Vesker <valex@...lanox.com>,
        Guy Shapiro <guysh@...lanox.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/28] [v2] infiniband: shut up a maybe-uninitialized warning

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 9:47:31 AM CEST Haggai Eran wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 1:05 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > @@ -1309,7 +1311,7 @@ static bool validate_net_dev(struct net_device *net_dev,
> >  static struct net_device *cma_get_net_dev(struct ib_cm_event *ib_event,
> >                                         const struct cma_req_info *req)
> >  {
> > -     struct sockaddr_storage listen_addr_storage, src_addr_storage;
> > +     struct sockaddr_storage listen_addr_storage = {}, src_addr_storage = {};
> 
> Doesn't this still translate to an extra initialization that Doug was
> worried about?

Thanks for spotting this. I must have screwed up while rebasing the patch
at some point, this one change should not be there, the other changes by
themselves sufficiently address the warning.

	Arnd