[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: fix uninitialized variable in i40e_set_vsi_promisc
Jakub Kicinski
kuba at kernel.org
Wed Aug 12 17:46:28 UTC 2020
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:39:50 +0200 Stefan Assmann wrote:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c: In function ‘i40e_set_vsi_promisc’:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c:1176:14: error: ‘aq_ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> i40e_status aq_ret;
What's your compiler? I don't see it on GCC 10.1.
> In case the code inside the if statement and the for loop does not get
> executed aq_ret will be uninitialized when the variable gets returned at
> the end of the function.
I think it'd be a better fix to make num_vlans unsigned.
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