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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: [Patch net-next] netpoll: fix an uninitialized variable
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:39:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358912351-14835-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> (raw)

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

Fengguang reported:

   net/core/netpoll.c: In function 'netpoll_setup':
   net/core/netpoll.c:1049:6: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

in !CONFIG_IPV6 case, we may error out without initializing
'err'.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

---
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index a9b1004..e2f79a1 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
 #else
 			np_err(np, "IPv6 is not supported %s, aborting\n",
 			       np->dev_name);
+			err = -EINVAL;
 			goto put;
 #endif
 		}

             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23  3:39 Cong Wang [this message]
2013-01-23  4:22 ` [Patch net-next] netpoll: fix an uninitialized variable David Miller

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