Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: chelsio: cxgb4: t4_hw.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables

From: Rickard Strandqvist
Date: Sun Jun 01 2014 - 15:37:05 EST


Hi Dimitrios!

Okay sorry, I see what you mean...

Best regards
Rickard Strandqvist


2014-06-01 21:11 GMT+02:00 Dimitrios Michailidis <dm@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
>
> There isn't actual risk here, this variable is not used uninitialized AFAICS.
>
>> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> It seems this is a false inference by the tool. I think the preferred method to suppress false tool warnings is to use uninitialized_var.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
>> index bba6768..326c005 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
>> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ int t4_seeprom_wp(struct adapter *adapter, bool
>> enable)
>> */
>> int get_vpd_params(struct adapter *adapter, struct vpd_params *p)
>> {
>> - u32 cclk_param, cclk_val;
>> + u32 cclk_param, cclk_val = 0;
>> int i, ret, addr;
>> int ec, sn, pn;
>> u8 *vpd, csum;
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>
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