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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: fix uninitialized variable use
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6563611.x9M4D6kWiH@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3356.1466498932@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:48:52 AM CEST David Howells wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hashing the peer key was introduced for AF_INET, but gcc
> > warns about the rxrpc_peer_hash_key function returning uninitialized
> > data for any other value of srx->transport.family:
> > 
> > net/rxrpc/peer_object.c: In function 'rxrpc_peer_hash_key':
> > net/rxrpc/peer_object.c:57:15: error: 'p' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> > 
> > Assuming that nothing else can be set here, this changes the
> > function to just return zero in case of an unknown address
> > family.
> 
> I'm actually more tempted to put a BUG() in there because if any new family
> support (say AF_INET6) is added, I want to make sure I catch all the places.

Makes sense. Do you want to do the patch yourself, or should I send
a new one doing that?

Maybe WARN() would be better than BUG()? That would still get the attention
it needs but not kill the process.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17  9:55 [PATCH] rxrpc: fix uninitialized variable use Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-21  8:48 ` David Howells
2016-06-21  9:28   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-06-21 10:05     ` David Howells

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