From: Dan Carpenter My static checker complains that if "func" is NULL then "clear_filter" is uninitialized. This seems like it could be true, although it's possible something subtle is happening that I haven't seen. kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3844 match_records() error: uninitialized symbol 'clear_filter'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170712073556.h6tkpjcdzjaozozs@mwanda Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f0a3b154bd7 ("ftrace: Clarify code for mod command") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 5fb5b40b3ae8..53f6b6401cf0 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -3816,7 +3816,7 @@ match_records(struct ftrace_hash *hash, char *func, int len, char *mod) int exclude_mod = 0; int found = 0; int ret; - int clear_filter; + int clear_filter = 0; if (func) { func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(func, len, &func_g.search, -- 2.10.2