Re: [PATCH] net/netfilter: Fix use uninitialized warn in nft_range_eval()

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:41:14AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Fix the following warn:
> 
>    CC [M]  net/netfilter/nft_range.o
> 8601,8605c9105
>  net/netfilter/nft_range.c: In function ânft_range_evalâ:
>  net/netfilter/nft_range.c:45:5: warning: âmismatchâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>    if (mismatch)
>       ^

You probably using an old tree snapshot? This was already fixed by:

commit d2e4d593516e877f1f6fb40031eb495f36606e16
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Oct 18 00:05:30 2016 +0200

    netfilter: nf_tables: avoid uninitialized variable warning

    The newly added nft_range_eval() function handles the two possible
    nft range operations, but as the compiler warning points out,
    any unexpected value would lead to the 'mismatch' variable being
    used without being initialized: