Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: remove uninitialized shadow variable

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:47:23PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A recent commit introduced an unconditional use of an uninitialized
> variable, as reported in this gcc warning:
> 
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: In function '__nf_conntrack_confirm':
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:632:33: error: 'ctinfo' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>    bytes = atomic64_read(&counter[CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo)].bytes);
>                                  ^
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:628:26: note: 'ctinfo' was declared here
>    enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
> 
> The problem is that a local variable shadows the function parameter.
> This removes the local variable, which looks like what Pablo originally
> intended.

Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry for this, I wonder why gcc didn't catch up this here.

@David, you can integrate this into your net-next tree.

Thanks for fixing up this Arnd.