Re: [PATCH] atm: fore200e.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Sun Jun 01 2014 - 20:10:46 EST


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Rickard Strandqvist
<rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
>
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
> index 204814e..d4725fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
> +++ b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
> @@ -2780,7 +2780,7 @@ static struct pci_driver fore200e_pca_driver = {
>
> static int __init fore200e_module_init(void)
> {
> - int err;
> + int err = 0;
>
> printk(FORE200E "FORE Systems 200E-series ATM driver - version " FORE200E_VERSION "\n");


I can see how a tool that doesn't know about Kconfig dependencies
might think so, but if you look at Kconfig you'll see that for this
driver to be enabled for building either CONFIG_SBUS or CONFIG_PCI
must be set, and if either of them is then this variable will not be
used without first being set.


-Olof
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