linux-kernel - [PATCH] Tools: hv: kvp: eliminate 'may be used uninitialized' warning

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:44:09 +0200
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Tools: hv: kvp: eliminate 'may be used uninitialized' warning

When building hv_kvp_daemon GCC-8.3 complains:

hv_kvp_daemon.c: In function ‘kvp_get_ip_info.constprop’:
hv_kvp_daemon.c:812:30: warning: ‘ip_buffer’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  struct hv_kvp_ipaddr_value *ip_buffer;

this seems to be a false positive: we only use ip_buffer when
op == KVP_OP_GET_IP_INFO and it is only unset when op == KVP_OP_ENUMERATE.

Silence the warning by initializing ip_buffer to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index d7e06fe0270e..6d809abaf338 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ kvp_get_ip_info(int family, char *if_name, int op,
 	int sn_offset = 0;
 	int error = 0;
 	char *buffer;
-	struct hv_kvp_ipaddr_value *ip_buffer;
+	struct hv_kvp_ipaddr_value *ip_buffer = NULL;
 	char cidr_mask[5]; /* /xyz */
 	int weight;
 	int i;
-- 
2.20.1