netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid harmless unnitialized variable warnings

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Message-ID: <20151123102302.GA1614@salvia>
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:23:02 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <chamas@...dion.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid harmless unnitialized variable warnings

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Several ARM default configurations give us warnings on recent
> compilers about potentially uninitialized variables in the
> nfnetlink code in two functions:
> 
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c: In function 'nfqnl_build_packet_message':
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:519:19: warning: 'nfnl_ct' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   if (ct && nfnl_ct->build(skb, ct, ctinfo, NFQA_CT, NFQA_CT_INFO) < 0)
> 
> Moving the rcu_dereference(nfnl_ct_hook) call outside of the
> conditional code avoids the warning without forcing us to
> preinitialize the variable.

Applied, thanks Arnd.

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