linux-kernel - [PATCH net 4/4] selftests: mptcp: connect: fix maybe-uninitialize warn

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Message-Id: <20260204-net-mptcp-misc-fixes-6-19-rc8-v1-4-cb559fb6b50a@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:57:28 +0100
From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
To: Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
 "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net 4/4] selftests: mptcp: connect: fix maybe-uninitialize
 warn

This warning can be seen with GCC 15.2:

  mptcp_connect.c: In function ‘main_loop’:
  mptcp_connect.c:1422:37: warning: ‘peer’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   1422 |                 if (connect(fd, peer->ai_addr, peer->ai_addrlen))
        |                                 ~~~~^~~~~~~~~
  mptcp_connect.c:1377:26: note: ‘peer’ was declared here
   1377 |         struct addrinfo *peer;
        |                          ^~~~

This variable is set in sock_connect_mptcp() in some conditions. If not,
this helper returns an error, and the program stops. So this is a false
positive, but better removing it by initialising peer to NULL.

Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
index 10f6f99cfd4e..24b4abac8687 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
@@ -1296,8 +1296,8 @@ void xdisconnect(int fd)

 int main_loop(void)
 {
+	struct addrinfo *peer = NULL;
 	int fd = 0, ret, fd_in = 0;
-	struct addrinfo *peer;
 	struct wstate winfo;

 	if (cfg_input && cfg_sockopt_types.mptfo) {

-- 
2.51.0