From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <[email protected]>

A undefined value was being used for the OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP
case entry, as the 'length' variable was not being initialized, fix it.

Caught by the reporter when building tools/perf/ using clang, which emmitted
this warning:

  kbuffer-parse.c:312:7: warning: variable 'length' is used uninitialized 
whenever switch case is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
          case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND:
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  kbuffer-parse.c:339:29: note: uninitialized use occurs here
          kbuf->next = kbuf->index + length;
                                   ^~~~~~
  kbuffer-parse.c:297:21: note: initialize the variable 'length' to silence 
this warning
          unsigned int length;
                             ^
                              = 0

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c 
b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
index 65984f1c2974..c94e3641b046 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static unsigned int old_update_pointers(struct kbuffer 
*kbuf)
                extend += delta;
                delta = extend;
                ptr += 4;
+               length = 0;
                break;
 
        case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP:
-- 
2.9.3

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