Re: [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: avoid uninitialized variable access

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Jul 07 2018 - 07:07:21 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 14:44:45 +0200

> When CONFIG_BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING is disabled, gcc correctly points out
> that the 'vid' variable is uninitialized whenever br_vlan_get_pvid
> returns an error:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c: In function 'mlxsw_sp_rif_vlan_fid_get':
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:6881:6: error: 'vid' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This changes the condition check to always return -EINVAL here,
> which I guess is what the author intended here.
>
> Fixes: e6f1960ae6c7 ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Allocate FID according to PVID")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied.