From 6df653c71e8168e1df01118cc85cd84d0deeb583 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luciano Coelho Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:52:51 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: initialize sta pointer to avoid false-positive warning Some compilers (eg. gcc 4.4.1 for ARM) report a false positive warning in mlme.c: net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function 'ieee80211_prep_connection': net/mac80211/mlme.c:3035: warning: 'sta' may be used uninitialized in this function This is a false positive because the place where 'sta' is used is inside an if with the same condition of where it is set: [...] if (!have_sta) { sta = sta_info_alloc(sdata, cbss->bssid, GFP_KERNEL); if (!sta) return -ENOMEM; } [...] if (!have_sta) { [...] sta->sta.supp_rates[cbss->channel->band] = rates; [...] For some reason the compiler doesn't understand this and warns. While this is not a problem in the code itself, we can avoid polluting the build logs with false positives by setting sta to NULL on declaration and checking for sta instead of !have_sta in the second if. Reported-by: Tony Lindgren Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 0f45d02e0ba7..fa927c6aa14b 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -3012,7 +3012,7 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local; struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd; struct ieee80211_bss *bss = (void *)cbss->priv; - struct sta_info *sta; + struct sta_info *sta = NULL; bool have_sta = false; int err; int ht_cfreq; @@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, local->oper_channel = cbss->channel; ieee80211_hw_config(local, 0); - if (!have_sta) { + if (sta) { u32 rates = 0, basic_rates = 0; bool have_higher_than_11mbit; int min_rate = INT_MAX, min_rate_index = -1; -- 2.20.1