Re: [PATCH] lib: remove back_str initialization

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Tue Apr 05 2022 - 19:12:06 EST


On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 6:16 AM Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clang static analysis reports this false positive
> glob.c:48:32: warning: Assigned value is garbage
> or undefined
> char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str = back_str;
> ^~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
>
> back_str is set after back_pat and it's use is
> protected by the !back_pat check. It is not
> necessary to initialize back_str, so remove
> the initialization.
>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, would you mind picking this up for us, please?

> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/glob.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/glob.c b/lib/glob.c
> index 85ecbda45cd8..15b73f490720 100644
> --- a/lib/glob.c
> +++ b/lib/glob.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
> * (no exception for /), it can be easily proved that there's
> * never a need to backtrack multiple levels.
> */
> - char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str = back_str;
> + char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str;
>
> /*
> * Loop over each token (character or class) in pat, matching
> --
> 2.27.0
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers