From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: ynl: avoid "use of uninitialized variable" false positive in generated code
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:40:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250915144052.6cbbe120@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250915144414.1185788-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:44:14 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> It is a pity that we have to do this, but I see no other way than to
> suppress the false positive by appeasing the compiler and initializing
> the "*attr_{aspec.c_name}" variable with a bogus value (NULL). This will
> never be used - at runtime it will always be overwritten when
> "n_{struct[anest].c_name}" is non-zero.
Yeah, I'm hitting this on CentOS, too :(
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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2025-09-15 14:44 [PATCH net-next] tools: ynl: avoid "use of uninitialized variable" false positive in generated code Vladimir Oltean
2025-09-15 21:40 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-09-16 15:38 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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