linux-kernel - [PATCH V2] usb: dwc2: host: fix Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

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Message-Id: <1484238806-13977-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:33:26 +0100
From:   Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
To:     John Youn <johnyoun@...opsys.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2] usb: dwc2: host: fix Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

Uninitialized char* causes a sparse build-warning, fix it up by
initializing it to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
---

V2: add missing change-log as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman 
    <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> 

Problem reported by sparse
drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c: In function 'dwc2_dump_urb_info':
./include/linux/dynamic_debug.h:134:3: warning: 'pipetype' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   __dynamic_dev_dbg(&descriptor, dev, fmt, \
   ^
drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c:4492:8: note: 'pipetype' was declared here
  char *pipetype;
        ^
Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_USB_DWC2=m +
CONFIG_USB_DWC2_VERBOSE=y

Patch is against 4.10-rc3 (localversion-next is next-20170112)

 drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c
index 911c3b3..9f66777 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c
@@ -4489,8 +4489,8 @@ static void dwc2_dump_urb_info(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb,
 {
 #ifdef VERBOSE_DEBUG
 	struct dwc2_hsotg *hsotg = dwc2_hcd_to_hsotg(hcd);
-	char *pipetype;
-	char *speed;
+	char *pipetype = NULL;
+	char *speed = NULL;
 
 	dev_vdbg(hsotg->dev, "%s, urb %p\n", fn_name, urb);
 	dev_vdbg(hsotg->dev, "  Device address: %d\n",
-- 
2.1.4