linux-kernel - [PATCH] SUNRPC: fix uninitialized variable warning

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 02:00:01 +0000
From:   Alakesh Haloi <alakesh.haloi@...il.com>
To:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        trivial@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC: fix uninitialized variable warning

Avoid following compiler warning on uninitialized variable

net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c: In function ‘xs_read_stream_request.constprop’:
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:525:10: warning: ‘read’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   return read;
          ^~~~
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:529:23: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  return ret < 0 ? ret : read;
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Alakesh Haloi <alakesh.haloi@...il.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index 9359539907ba..732d4b57411a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -495,8 +495,8 @@ xs_read_stream_request(struct sock_xprt *transport, struct msghdr *msg,
 		int flags, struct rpc_rqst *req)
 {
 	struct xdr_buf *buf = &req->rq_private_buf;
-	size_t want, read;
-	ssize_t ret;
+	size_t want, uninitialized_var(read);
+	ssize_t uninitialized_var(ret);
 
 	xs_read_header(transport, buf);
 
-- 
2.17.2