From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/28] [v2] netfilter: nf_tables: avoid uninitialized variable warning
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:23:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161018152354.GA2759@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161017220557.1688282-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The newly added nft_range_eval() function handles the two possible
> nft range operations, but as the compiler warning points out,
> any unexpected value would lead to the 'mismatch' variable being
> used without being initialized:
>
> net/netfilter/nft_range.c: In function 'nft_range_eval':
> net/netfilter/nft_range.c:45:5: error: 'mismatch' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This removes the variable in question and instead moves the
> condition into the switch itself, which is potentially more
> efficient than adding a bogus 'default' clause as in my
> first approach, and is nicer than using the 'uninitialized_var'
> macro.
Applied to the nf tree, thanks Arnd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-18 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 22:03 [PATCH 00/28] Reenable maybe-uninitialized warnings Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-17 22:05 ` [PATCH 01/28] [v2] netfilter: nf_tables: avoid uninitialized variable warning Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-18 15:23 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-10-17 22:19 ` [PATCH 28/28] Kbuild: bring back -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-18 5:08 ` [PATCH 00/28] Reenable maybe-uninitialized warnings Christoph Hellwig
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