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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:20:00 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: initialize variable in create_dyn_event()
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:58:20 -0700
frowand.list@gmail.com wrote:

> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
> 
> Fix compile warning in create_dyn_event(): 'ret' may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Wuninitialized].
> 
> Fixes: 5448d44c3855 ("tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>

Applied. Thanks Frank!

-- Steve

> ---
> 
> changes since v1:
>   - initialize to -ENODEV instead of 0, as suggested by Steve
> 
>  kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> index dd1f43588d70..fa100ed3b4de 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct dyn_event_operations *type)
>  static int create_dyn_event(int argc, char **argv)
>  {
>  	struct dyn_event_operations *ops;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = -ENODEV;
>  
>  	if (argv[0][0] == '-' || argv[0][0] == '!')
>  		return dyn_event_release(argc, argv, NULL);