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From: Josh Law <hlcj1234567@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/glob: initialize back_str to silence uninitialized variable warning
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:52:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312215249.50165-1-objecting@objecting.org> (raw)

From: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>

back_str is only used when back_pat is non-NULL, and both are always
set together, so it is safe in practice. Initialize back_str to NULL
to make this safety invariant explicit and silence compiler/static
analysis warnings.

Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
---
 lib/glob.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/glob.c b/lib/glob.c
index 69311568ad3d..7aca76c25bcb 100644
--- a/lib/glob.c
+++ b/lib/glob.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
 	 * (no exception for /), it can be easily proved that there's
 	 * never a need to backtrack multiple levels.
 	 */
-	char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str;
+	char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Loop over each token (character or class) in pat, matching
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-12 21:52 UTC|newest]

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2026-03-12 21:52 Josh Law [this message]
2026-03-12 22:46 ` [PATCH] lib/glob: initialize back_str to silence uninitialized variable warning Andrew Morton

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