Re: [PATCH] [rfc, netfilter-next] netfilter: nf_tables: fib warnings
From: Florian Westphal
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 11:53:57 EST
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The newly added nft fib code produces two warnings:
>
> net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c: In function 'nft_fib4_eval':
> net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c:80:6: error: unused variable 'i' [-Werror=unused-variable]
> net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c: In function ânft_fib4_evalâ:
> net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c:137:6: error: âoifâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> The first one is obvious as the only user of that variable is
> inside of an #ifdef, but the second one is a bit trickier.
> It is clear that 'oif' is uninitialized here if neither
> NFTA_FIB_F_OIF nor NFTA_FIB_F_IIF are set.
>
> I have no idea how that should be handled, this patch just
> returns without doing anything, which may or may not be
> the right thing to do.
It should be initialized to NULL.