netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/net: fix uninitialized variables

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Message-ID: <ff35f349-5036-4305-a352-fdef09326851@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 09:49:14 +0200
From: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/net: fix uninitialized variables

Hi John,

On 06/05/2024 00:26, John Hubbard wrote:
> When building with clang, via:
> 
>     make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftest
> 
> ...clang warns about three variables that are not initialized in all
> cases:
> 
> 1) The opt_ipproto_off variable is used uninitialized if "testname" is
> not "ip". This seems like an actual bug.
> 
> 2) The addr_len is used uninitialized, but only in the assert case,
>    which bails out, so this is harmless.
> 
> 3) The family variable in add_listener() is only used uninitialized in
>    the error case (neither IPv4 nor IPv6 is specified), so it's also
>    harmless.
> 
> Fix by initializing each variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/gro.c                 | 3 ++-
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/ip_local_port_range.c | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_nl_ctl.c     | 2 +-

Thank you for fixing these warnings!

The modification in the MPTCP selftest directory looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>

Cheers,
Matt
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