Re: [PATCH v2 08/13] selftests: net: netlink-dumps: Avoid uninitialized variable warning
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Dec 10 2025 - 04:13:44 EST
On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:10:02 -0800 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The following warning is seen when building netlink-dumps.
>
> netlink-dumps.c: In function ‘dump_extack’:
> ../kselftest_harness.h:788:35: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized
>
> Problem is that the loop which initializes 'ret' may exit early without
> initializing the variable if recv() returns an error. Always initialize
> 'ret' to solve the problem.
Are you sure you're working off the latest tree? I think this should
already be fixed by 13cb6ac5b50
I applied the other 3 networking changes.