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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: silence uninitialized variable warning
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:35:57 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:

> My static checker complains that if "func" is NULL then "clear_filter"
> is uninitialized. This seems like it could be true, although it's
> possible something subtle is happening that I haven't seen.
>
> kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3844 match_records()
> error: uninitialized symbol 'clear_filter'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> It does occur to me that I could initialize it to 1 instead of 0 but my
> guess is that zero is intended. Please review this one carefully.

Looks like it broke with f0a3b154bd7 ("ftrace: Clarify code for mod
command"). Yeah, clear_filter = 0 is the correct default.

Thanks!

-- Steve

>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 2a3c45743f54..5e658da91912 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -3816,7 +3816,7 @@ match_records(struct ftrace_hash *hash, char *func, int len, char *mod)
> int exclude_mod = 0;
> int found = 0;
> int ret;
> - int clear_filter;
> + int clear_filter = 0;
>
> if (func) {
> func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(func, len, &func_g.search,

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