Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: split up rxrpc_send_call_packet()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 01 October 2016, David Howells wrote:
> commit 35510eefc29e2757c1ac46218cded2e505093fc2
> Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sat Oct 1 00:35:15 2016 +0100
> 
>     rxrpc: Split rxrpc_send_call_packet()
>     
>     Split rxrpc_send_data_packet() to separate ACK generation (which is more
>     complicated) from ABORT generation.  This simplifies the code a bit and
>     avoids the following warning:
>     
>     In file included from ../net/rxrpc/output.c:20:0:
>     net/rxrpc/output.c: In function 'rxrpc_send_call_packet':
>     net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h:1187:27: error: 'top' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>     net/rxrpc/output.c:103:24: note: 'top' was declared here
>     net/rxrpc/output.c:225:25: error: 'hard_ack' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>     
>     Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, good idea. We could probably share the part of the two functions that sets the
contents of the msg and pkt variables by moving it into a third function, but I'm
not sure if that actually improves readability or just reduces the number of lines.

	Arnd