![]() | |||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:09:47PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hi Steffen,> > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Klassert wrote:> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:45:55AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > > > drivers/net/3c59x.c: In function 'vortex_up':> > > drivers/net/3c59x.c:1495: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function> > > > This came in with the recently applied 3c59x-check-return-of-pci_enable_device patch > > from Mark Hindley. I just compiled it on a PCI only machine so far, therefore I did > > not notice the warning yet.> > Hmm, the .config I built with had PCI=y as well. Probably a compiler > version difference -- Jeff also mentioned yesterday that some newer > GCC versions fail to warn about uninitialized variables cases. > Sorry, this is my bad. I have just checked: there is no warning with gcc 4.2 or 4.1, but 3.3 emits the warning. > > > > is a genuine bug. The function returns an uninitialized value of 'err' > > > back to the caller, which expects it to be 0 for success cases. Let's > > > fix this by explicitly initializing 'err' to zero.> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>> > Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Acked-by: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
| Last update: 2007-09-04 10:57 [from the cache] ©2003-2008 | |||||||||||