netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/netfilter: Fix use uninitialized warn in nft_range

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2016 00:13:13 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:     kaber@...sh.net, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, davem@...emloft.net,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/netfilter: Fix use uninitialized warn in
 nft_range_eval()

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:41:14AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Fix the following warn:
> 
>    CC [M]  net/netfilter/nft_range.o
> 8601,8605c9105
>  net/netfilter/nft_range.c: In function ‘nft_range_eval’:
>  net/netfilter/nft_range.c:45:5: warning: ‘mismatch’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>    if (mismatch)
>       ^

You probably using an old tree snapshot? This was already fixed by:

commit d2e4d593516e877f1f6fb40031eb495f36606e16
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date:   Tue Oct 18 00:05:30 2016 +0200

    netfilter: nf_tables: avoid uninitialized variable warning

    The newly added nft_range_eval() function handles the two possible
    nft range operations, but as the compiler warning points out,
    any unexpected value would lead to the 'mismatch' variable being
    used without being initialized: