[tip:perf/core] tools lib traceevent: Initialize lenght on OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP

From: tip-bot for Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 01:40:59 EST


Commit-ID: 14e4d7e0abfdefabea2b8796c5a8b2b9c77b5326
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/14e4d7e0abfdefabea2b8796c5a8b2b9c77b5326
Author: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:11:44 -0500
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:22:32 -0300

tools lib traceevent: Initialize lenght on OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP

A undefined value was being used for the OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP
case entry, as the 'length' variable was not being initialized, fix it.

Caught by the reporter when building tools/perf/ using clang, which emmitted
this warning:

kbuffer-parse.c:312:7: warning: variable 'length' is used uninitialized whenever switch case is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND:
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kbuffer-parse.c:339:29: note: uninitialized use occurs here
kbuf->next = kbuf->index + length;
^~~~~~
kbuffer-parse.c:297:21: note: initialize the variable 'length' to silence this warning
unsigned int length;
^
= 0

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170213121418.47f279e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
index 65984f1..c94e364 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static unsigned int old_update_pointers(struct kbuffer *kbuf)
extend += delta;
delta = extend;
ptr += 4;
+ length = 0;
break;

case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: