netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_unix: fix build warning

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Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:27:15 +0300
From:	Rami Rosen <roszenrami@...il.com>
To:	dingtianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: fix build warning

Hi,
Which version of gcc are you using ?
A patch like yours, for the same method, unix_bind(), was sent in the
past, and Stephen Hemminger noted the
with gcc 4.7 the warning you got does not occur.
see:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/247807

Best Regards,

Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, dingtianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com> wrote:
> net/unix/af_unix.c: In function ‘unix_bind’:
> net/unix/af_unix.c:892: warning: ‘path.mnt’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> net/unix/af_unix.c:892: warning: ‘path.dentry’ may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
> ---
>  net/unix/af_unix.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> index 971282b..3ccc049 100644
> --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static int unix_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
>         atomic_set(&addr->refcnt, 1);
>
>         if (sun_path[0]) {
> -               struct path path;
> +               struct path path = {};
>                 umode_t mode = S_IFSOCK |
>                        (SOCK_INODE(sock)->i_mode & ~current_umask());
>                 err = unix_mknod(sun_path, mode, &path);
> --
> 1.8.0
>
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