Hi, Borislav
Why not just initialized it as NULL, or mark it as uninitialized_var()?
Regards,
Michael Wang
On 11/23/2015 10:36 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hey,
>
> so I keep getting those since recently:
>
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:519:19: warning: ‘nfnl_ct’ may be used
> uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> if (ct && nfnl_ct->build(skb, ct, ctinfo, NFQA_CT, NFQA_CT_INFO) < 0)
> ^
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:316:23: note: ‘nfnl_ct’ was declared here
> struct nfnl_ct_hook *nfnl_ct;
> ^
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c: In function ‘nfqnl_recv_verdict’:
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:1083:11: warning: ‘nfnl_ct’ may be used
> uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> nfnl_ct->seq_adjust(entry->skb, ct, ctinfo, diff);
> ^
>
> and was thinking can we shut them up like this? I know, it is ugly :-\
>
> I mean, it is obvious in both cases that nfnl_ct won't be used if ct is
> not set but apparently gcc can't see that far...
>
> ---
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> index 7d81d280cb4f..cd61b0b5c413 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> @@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *net, struct
> nfqnl_instance *queue,
> if (ct != NULL)
> size += nfnl_ct->build_size(ct);
> }
> + } else {
> + nfnl_ct = NULL;
> }
>
> if (queue->flags & NFQA_CFG_F_UID_GID) {
> @@ -1069,6 +1071,8 @@ nfqnl_recv_verdict(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff
> *skb,
> nfnl_ct = rcu_dereference(nfnl_ct_hook);
> if (nfnl_ct != NULL)
> ct = nfqnl_ct_parse(nfnl_ct, nlh, nfqa, entry, &ctinfo);
> + } else {
> + nfnl_ct = NULL;
> }
>
> if (nfqa[NFQA_PAYLOAD]) {
>
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