On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:48:52 AM CEST David Howells wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hashing the peer key was introduced for AF_INET, but gcc
> > warns about the rxrpc_peer_hash_key function returning uninitialized
> > data for any other value of srx->transport.family:
> > 
> > net/rxrpc/peer_object.c: In function 'rxrpc_peer_hash_key':
> > net/rxrpc/peer_object.c:57:15: error: 'p' may be used uninitialized in this 
> > function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> > 
> > Assuming that nothing else can be set here, this changes the
> > function to just return zero in case of an unknown address
> > family.
> 
> I'm actually more tempted to put a BUG() in there because if any new family
> support (say AF_INET6) is added, I want to make sure I catch all the places.

Makes sense. Do you want to do the patch yourself, or should I send
a new one doing that?

Maybe WARN() would be better than BUG()? That would still get the attention
it needs but not kill the process.

        Arnd

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