Thanks for clarification. Here is an updated patch, which has the advantage
of also silencing the gcc warning.
For len equal to 4, we never call sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options(),
therefore rmagic does not get initialized.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c.orig 2006-09-01 02:16:18.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c 2006-09-01 02:16:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static void sppp_lcp_input (struct sppp struct net_device *dev = sp->pp_if;
int len = skb->len;
u8 *p, opt[6];
- u32 rmagic;
+ u32 rmagic = 0;
if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct lcp_header))) {
if (sp->pp_flags & PP_DEBUG)