netdev - Re: [net 1/1] tipc: tipc clang warning

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Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gordan.mihaljevic@...tech.com.au,
        tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au, hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au,
        canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net 1/1] tipc: tipc clang warning

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:03:51 +0100

> When checking the code with clang -Wsometimes-uninitialized we get the
> following warning:
> 
> if (!tipc_link_is_establishing(l)) {
>     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/tipc/node.c:847:46: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>       tipc_bearer_xmit(n->net, bearer_id, &xmitq, maddr);
> 
> net/tipc/node.c:831:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always
> true
> if (!tipc_link_is_establishing(l)) {
>     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/tipc/node.c:821:31: note: initialize the variable 'maddr' to silence
> this warning
> struct tipc_media_addr *maddr;
> 
> We fix this by initializing 'maddr' to NULL. For the matter of clarity,
> we also test if 'xmitq' is non-empty before we use it and 'maddr'
> further down in the  function. It will never happen that 'xmitq' is non-
> empty at the same time as 'maddr' is NULL, so this is a sufficient test.
> 
> Fixes: 598411d70f85 ("tipc: make resetting of links non-atomic")
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.