[PATCH v8 04/21] tracing/remotes: Initialise pos in trace_start()
From: Vincent Donnefort
Date: Fri Nov 06 2026 - 13:08:10 EST
When *pos is 0, trace_start() passes a dummy local variable i to
trace_next() to fetch the first entry without modifying *pos. In that
branch, i was left uninitialized.
While i is discarded and causes no functional issues, initialise i and
keep static analysers happy.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_remote.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
index 026f6ec9b07b..317ba3124343 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c
@@ -748,12 +748,12 @@ static void *trace_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
trace_remote_iter_read_start(iter);
+ i = iter->pos;
if (!*pos) {
iter->pos = -1;
return trace_next(m, NULL, &i);
}
- i = iter->pos;
while (i < *pos) {
iter = trace_next(m, NULL, &i);
if (!iter)
--
2.56.0.455.g6c5a503b38-goog