On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 22/01/2026 06:59, Ales Musil wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 6:33 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 14/01/2026 11:25, Ales Musil via dev wrote:
> >>> The GCC with -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-common started to report
> >>> the following warning:
> >>>
> >>> In function 'construct_dpdk_mutex_options',
> >>>     inlined from 'construct_dpdk_args' at lib/dpdk.c:238:5,
> >>>     inlined from 'dpdk_init__' at lib/dpdk.c:393:5,
> >>>     inlined from 'dpdk_init' at lib/dpdk.c:534:23:
> >>> lib/dpdk.c:220:13: error: 'found_value' may be used uninitialized
> >> [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> >>>   220 |             svec_add(args, found_value);
> >>>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> lib/dpdk.c: In function 'dpdk_init':
> >>> lib/dpdk.c:189:21: note: 'found_value' was declared here
> >>>   189 |         const char *found_value;
> >>>       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >>>
> >>> Assign NULL to the variable to avoid this warning.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Ales,
> >>
> >
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> >
> >>
> >> The patch looks fine. The warning seems to be a false positive as it
> >> would have a value for found_value or continued.
> >>
> >
> > Yes the warning is a false positive.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I couldn't reproduce this with GCC 15 or 16, which version of GCC were
> >> you using and did you have any other flags set ?
> >>
> >
> > # gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20251211 (Red Hat 15.2.1-5)
> >
> > And the flags used:
> > ./configure 'CFLAGS= -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-common -g'
> > --with-dpdk=static --enable-Werror --enable-sparse
> >
>
> Ah ok, it needs the -O1, it doesn't show up at other optimization
> levels. Maybe we should mention that in the commit message. I can add it
> on apply if it's fine for you.
>

I didn't realize the -O1 is needed, yes I'm fine with that, thanks.


>
> thanks,
> Kevin.
>
> >
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Kevin.
> >>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ales
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
> >>> ---
> >>>  lib/dpdk.c | 2 +-
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/lib/dpdk.c b/lib/dpdk.c
> >>> index 077bdfc09..128098ec2 100644
> >>> --- a/lib/dpdk.c
> >>> +++ b/lib/dpdk.c
> >>> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ construct_dpdk_mutex_options(const struct smap
> >> *ovs_other_config,
> >>>      int i;
> >>>      for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(excl_opts); ++i) {
> >>>          int found_opts = 0, scan, found_pos = -1;
> >>> -        const char *found_value;
> >>> +        const char *found_value = NULL;
> >>>          struct dpdk_exclusive_options_map *popt = &excl_opts[i];
> >>>
> >>>          for (scan = 0; scan < MAX_DPDK_EXCL_OPTS
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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