Re: [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted bywarnings

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 19:24:50 EST


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:42:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> commit ae97fec3701a559929c3529e35417fab133a4d39
> >> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Tue Jul 17 01:08:29 2007 -0400
> >>
> >> drivers/usb/misc/auerswald: fix status check, remove redundant check
> >> 1) We should only set 'actual_length' output variable if usb
> >> length is
> >> known to be good.
> >> 2) No need to check actual_length for NULL. The only caller
> >> always
> >> passes non-NULL value.
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > I have no objection to this patch at all, however it does not remove the
> > compiler warning :(
>
> The description doesn't say it removes a warning, so it doesn't :)
>
> You want to look at
>
> drivers/*: mark variables with uninitialized_var()
>
> which was in posting "[git patches 2/2] warnings: use uninitialized_var()"
> and is now upstream commit a6343afb6e16b65b9f0b264f94f8207212e7e3ae

Ah, sorry, I just went for the first USB change entry, sorry about that
:)

And thanks for doing this, clean builds are good to have.

greg k-h
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