netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] samples/bpf: silence compiler warning for xdpsock

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Date:   Sat, 2 Mar 2019 01:11:16 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] samples/bpf: silence compiler warning for
 xdpsock_user.c

On 03/01/2019 07:19 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Compiling xdpsock_user.c with 4.8.5, I hit the following
> compilation warning:
>     HOSTCC  samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.o
>   /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c: In function ‘main’:
>   /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:449:6: warning: ‘idx_cq’ may be used unini
>   tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>     u32 idx_cq, idx_fq;
>         ^
>   /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:606:7: warning: ‘idx_rx’ may be used unini
>   tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>      u32 idx_rx, idx_tx = 0;
>          ^
>   /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:506:6: warning: ‘idx_rx’ may be used unini
>   tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>     u32 idx_rx, idx_fq = 0;
> 
> As an example, the code pattern looks like:
>     u32 idx_cq;
>     ...
>     ret = xsk_ring_prod__reserve(&xsk->umem->fq, rcvd, &idx_fq);
>     if (ret) {
>       ...
>     }
>     ... idx_fq ...
> The compiler warns since it does not know whether &idx_fq is assigned
> or not inside the library function xsk_ring_prod__reserve().
> 
> Let us assign an initial value 0 to such auto variables to silence
> compiler warning.
> 
> Fixes: 248c7f9c0e21 ("samples/bpf: convert xdpsock to use libbpf for AF_XDP access")
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>

Applied, thanks!