2024-05-06 19:23:58

by Willem de Bruijn

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] selftests/net: fix uninitialized variables

John Hubbard wrote:
> When building with clang, via:
>
> make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftest
>
> ...clang warns about three variables that are not initialized in all
> cases:
>
> 1) The opt_ipproto_off variable is used uninitialized if "testname" is
> not "ip". Willem de Bruijn pointed out that this is an actual bug, and
> suggested the fix that I'm using here (thanks!).
>
> 2) The addr_len is used uninitialized, but only in the assert case,
> which bails out, so this is harmless.
>
> 3) The family variable in add_listener() is only used uninitialized in
> the error case (neither IPv4 nor IPv6 is specified), so it's also
> harmless.
>
> Fix by initializing each variable.
>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

Thanks!