[PATCH v7 04/20] tracing/remotes: Initialise pos in trace_start()

From: Vincent Donnefort

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 11:04:39 EST


When *pos is 0, trace_start() passes a dummy local variable i to
trace_next() to fetch the first entry without modifying *pos. In that
branch, i was left uninitialized.

While i is discarded and causes no functional issues, initialise i and
keep static analysers happy.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_remote.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
index ae22d13308a5..aa76845a630a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
@@ -748,12 +748,12 @@ static void *trace_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)

trace_remote_iter_read_start(iter);

+ i = iter->pos;
if (!*pos) {
iter->pos = -1;
return trace_next(m, NULL, &i);
}

- i = iter->pos;
while (i < *pos) {
iter = trace_next(m, NULL, &i);
if (!iter)
--
2.56.0.rc1.310.g51773c2048-goog