[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 33/41] mellanox: mlx5: avoid uninitialized variable warning with gcc-12

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jun 13 2022 - 22:21:10 EST


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 842c3b3ddc5f4d17275edbaa09e23d712bf8b915 ]

gcc-12 started warning about 'tracker' being used uninitialized:

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c: In function ‘mlx5_do_bond’:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c:786:28: warning: ‘tracker’ is used uninitialized [-Wuninitialized]
786 | struct lag_tracker tracker;
| ^~~~~~~

which seems to be because it doesn't track how the use (and
initialization) is bound by the 'do_bond' flag.

But admittedly that 'do_bond' usage is fairly complicated, and involves
passing it around as an argument to helper functions, so it's somewhat
understandable that gcc doesn't see how that all works.

This function could be rewritten to make the use of that tracker
variable more obviously safe, but for now I'm just adding the forced
initialization of it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c
index c19d9327095b..bf1c5dc419c3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static void mlx5_do_bond(struct mlx5_lag *ldev)
{
struct mlx5_core_dev *dev0 = ldev->pf[MLX5_LAG_P1].dev;
struct mlx5_core_dev *dev1 = ldev->pf[MLX5_LAG_P2].dev;
- struct lag_tracker tracker;
+ struct lag_tracker tracker = { };
bool do_bond, roce_lag;
int err;

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2.35.1