linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: initialize variable in create_dyn

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Message-Id: <20190323193048.35d96b86388552b0b7f7a36d@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:30:48 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     frowand.list@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: initialize variable in create_dyn_event()

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:20:00 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:58:20 -0700
> frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
> > 
> > Fix compile warning in create_dyn_event(): 'ret' may be used uninitialized
> > in this function [-Wuninitialized].
> > 
> > Fixes: 5448d44c3855 ("tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.com>
> 
> Applied. Thanks Frank!

Thank you Frank and Steve,

feel free to add my ack.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Thanks!

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > changes since v1:
> >   - initialize to -ENODEV instead of 0, as suggested by Steve
> > 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> > index dd1f43588d70..fa100ed3b4de 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct dyn_event_operations *type)
> >  static int create_dyn_event(int argc, char **argv)
> >  {
> >  	struct dyn_event_operations *ops;
> > -	int ret;
> > +	int ret = -ENODEV;
> >  
> >  	if (argv[0][0] == '-' || argv[0][0] == '!')
> >  		return dyn_event_release(argc, argv, NULL);
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>