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From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
To: "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org" <lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org>,
	"natechancellor@gmail.com" <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	"clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com" 
	<clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ndesaulniers@google.com" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"naresh.kamboju@linaro.org" <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: bridge.c:157:11: error: variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 20:34:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452cbfe701b1373c871ba584ef4b249a59d8edd6.camel@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygnhk0jtwqs6.fsf@nvidia.com>

On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 20:35 +0300, Vlad Buslov wrote:
> On Mon 06 Sep 2021 at 19:39, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 2:11 AM Naresh Kamboju
> > <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c:157:11:
> > > error:
> > > variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is
> > > false
> > 
> > That compiler warning (now error) seems to be entirely valid.
> 
> I agree, this is a real issue. It had been reported before and my fix
> for it was submitted by Saeed last week but wasn't accepted since it
> was
> part of larger series that also included features and net-next had
> already been closed by that time. As far as I understand it is
> pending
> submission to net as part of series of bug fixes. Sorry for the
> delay.
> 
> 

yes, the fix will be submitted shortly to net/rc branch.
due to bad net-next timing the patch couldn't make it to -next.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-06  9:10 Naresh Kamboju
2021-09-06 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-06 17:35   ` Vlad Buslov
2021-09-07 20:34     ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]

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