netdev - Re: sctp use-uninitialized warning in net-2.6.25

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Message-Id: <20080118.044911.64979691.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:49:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vladislav.yasevich@...com
Subject: Re: sctp use-uninitialized warning in net-2.6.25

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:59:57 -0800

> net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c: In function 'sctp_sf_do_5_1C_ack':
> net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c:484: warning: 'error' may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> It is not obvious that this is a false positive.

I'll check in the following for now.

Vlad, please take a look.

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index b126751..6e12757 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_do_5_1C_ack(const struct sctp_endpoint *ep,
 	sctp_init_chunk_t *initchunk;
 	struct sctp_chunk *err_chunk;
 	struct sctp_packet *packet;
-	sctp_error_t error;
+	sctp_error_t error = SCTP_ERROR_NO_ERROR;
 
 	if (!sctp_vtag_verify(chunk, asoc))
 		return sctp_sf_pdiscard(ep, asoc, type, arg, commands);
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