linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [net] net/mlx5e: fix another -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

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Message-ID: <5cc9060f-6802-8634-f144-4637e9576ef1@mellanox.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:30:24 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net] net/mlx5e: fix another -Wmaybe-uninitialized
 warning

On 1/11/2017 11:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> @@ -666,14 +666,15 @@ static int mlx5e_route_lookup_ipv4(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
>   	struct rtable *rt;
>   	struct neighbour *n = NULL;
>   	int ttl;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET))
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>   
> -#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET)
>   	rt = ip_route_output_key(dev_net(mirred_dev), fl4);
> -	if (IS_ERR(rt))
> -		return PTR_ERR(rt);
> -#else
> -	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -#endif
> +	ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(rt);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;

but this means that if we got NULL from ip_route_output_key, we will 
return success (0) here which is wrong.