[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Kill uninitialized warning in trace_printk.c

From: penberg
Date: Fri Sep 23 2011 - 10:19:25 EST


From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch kill the following bogus warning issued by GCC by shuffling the code
around:

CC fs/ext4/balloc.o
kernel/trace/trace_printk.c: In function âmodule_trace_bprintk_format_notifyâ:
kernel/trace/trace_printk.c:65:14: warning: âfmtâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
kernel/trace/trace_printk.c:52:8: note: âfmtâ was declared here

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_printk.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
index 1f06468..25e34f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static
void hold_module_trace_bprintk_format(const char **start, const char **end)
{
const char **iter;
- char *fmt;
+ char *fmt = NULL;

mutex_lock(&btrace_mutex);
for (iter = start; iter < end; iter++) {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void hold_module_trace_bprintk_format(const char **start, const char **end)
tb_fmt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tb_fmt), GFP_KERNEL);
if (tb_fmt)
fmt = kmalloc(strlen(*iter) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tb_fmt && fmt) {
+ if (fmt) {
list_add_tail(&tb_fmt->list, &trace_bprintk_fmt_list);
strcpy(fmt, *iter);
tb_fmt->fmt = fmt;
--
1.7.6.2

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