linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 159/846] libbpf: Silence uninitialized warning/error in btf_dump_dump_type

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Message-Id: <20220124184106.471942756@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:34:36 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 159/846] libbpf: Silence uninitialized warning/error in btf_dump_dump_type_data

From: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 43174f0d4597325cb91f1f1f55263eb6e6101036 ]

When compiling libbpf with gcc 4.8.5, we see:

  CC       staticobjs/btf_dump.o
btf_dump.c: In function ‘btf_dump_dump_type_data.isra.24’:
btf_dump.c:2296:5: error: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  if (err < 0)
     ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [staticobjs/btf_dump.o] Error 1

While gcc 4.8.5 is too old to build the upstream kernel, it's possible it
could be used to build standalone libbpf which suffers from the same problem.
Silence the error by initializing 'err' to 0.  The warning/error seems to be
a false positive since err is set early in the function.  Regardless we
shouldn't prevent libbpf from building for this.

Fixes: 920d16af9b42 ("libbpf: BTF dumper support for typed data")
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1638180040-8037-1-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
index e4b483f15fb99..8c9325802793b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ static int btf_dump_dump_type_data(struct btf_dump *d,
 				   __u8 bits_offset,
 				   __u8 bit_sz)
 {
-	int size, err;
+	int size, err = 0;
 
 	size = btf_dump_type_data_check_overflow(d, t, id, data, bits_offset);
 	if (size < 0)
-- 
2.34.1