On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:47:23PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > A recent commit introduced an unconditional use of an uninitialized > variable, as reported in this gcc warning: > > net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: In function '__nf_conntrack_confirm': > net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:632:33: error: 'ctinfo' may be used > uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] > bytes = atomic64_read(&counter[CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo)].bytes); > ^ > net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:628:26: note: 'ctinfo' was declared here > enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo; > > The problem is that a local variable shadows the function parameter. > This removes the local variable, which looks like what Pablo originally > intended.
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> Sorry for this, I wonder why gcc didn't catch up this here. @David, you can integrate this into your net-next tree. Thanks for fixing up this Arnd.
