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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mcs7780: Silence uninitialized variable warning
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:37:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170731.103716.2203333144439591434.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170731070925.ztlfbyd7pvoz46wh@mwanda>

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:41:40 +0300

> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:28:55PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:45:11 +0300
>> 
>> > -	__u16 rval;
>> > +	__u16 rval = -1;
>> 
>> Fixing a bogus warning by assigning a signed constant to an
>> unsigned variable doesn't really make me all that happy.
>> 
>> I don't think I'll apply this, sorry.
> 
> There's no guarantee that small kmallocs will always succeed in future
> kernels so it's not *totally* bogus.

Perhaps the burdon of initializing the value belongs in
mcs_get_reg(), and you can set it properly to 0xffff
instead of -1.

Ok?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-28 14:45 [PATCH net] mcs7780: Silence uninitialized variable warning Dan Carpenter
2017-07-30  6:28 ` David Miller
2017-07-31  7:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-31 17:37     ` David Miller [this message]
2017-08-01 10:45       ` Dan Carpenter

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