[PATCH] FC: cifs: Initialized an uninitialized variable

Vinay Sawal vinaysawal at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 21:48:50 MST 2011


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:00:09PM -0800, Vinay Sawal wrote:
>>> Removed a compile time warning by initializing an uninitialized variable.
>>
>>> -     int rc;
>>> +     int rc = -EFAULT;
>>
>> Why is that the right thing to do?  Other than "it made the compiler to
>> STFU, therefore it is Good(tm)", please.
>
> Hard to disagree with Al's logic, although changing the scope of rc to
> within the for loop might also make both your compiler happy and more
> sense.   In any case, I prefer real bug fixes.

Completely agree. Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Vinay




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> Thanks,
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> Steve
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