linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: smiapp: avoid printing an uninitialized variable

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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 00:55:10 +0200
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: smiapp: avoid printing an uninitialized variable

Hi Arnd,

Thanks for the patch.

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:28:16PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> There is no intialization for the 'reg' variable, so printing
> it produces undefined behavior as well as a compile-time warning:
> 
> drivers/media/i2c/ccs/ccs-core.c:314:49: error: variable 'reg' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
>                         "0x%8.8x %s pixels: %d %s (pixelcode %u)\n", reg,
> 
> Remove the variable and stop printing it.
> 
> Fixes: b24cc2a18c50 ("media: smiapp: Rename as "ccs"")

The patch introducing this was 

fd9065812c7b ("media: smiapp: Obtain frame descriptor from CCS limits")

so I'll use it instead. Also s/smiapp/ccs/ in the subject.

Interesting that GCC 8.3 didn't complain.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus