Hi,

Thanks a lot for fixing this - I hadn't see the warnings with gcc.

On 30/09/2025 12:06, Sidharth Seela wrote:
Fix functions that return undefined values. These issues were caught by
running clang using LLVM=1 option.


Clang warnings are as follows:
ovpn-cli.c:1587:6: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' 
condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
  1587 |         if (!sock) {
       |             ^~~~~
ovpn-cli.c:1635:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
  1635 |         return ret;
       |                ^~~
ovpn-cli.c:1587:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
  1587 |         if (!sock) {
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
  1588 |                 fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate netlink socket\n");
       |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1589 |                 goto err_free;
       |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1590 |         }
       |         ~
ovpn-cli.c:1584:15: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
  1584 |         int mcid, ret;
       |                      ^
       |                       = 0
ovpn-cli.c:2107:7: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 
switch case is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
  2107 |         case CMD_INVALID:
       |              ^~~~~~~~~~~
ovpn-cli.c:2111:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
  2111 |         return ret;
       |                ^~~
ovpn-cli.c:1939:12: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
  1939 |         int n, ret;
       |                   ^
       |


Fixes: 959bc330a439 ("testing/selftests: add test tool and scripts for ovpn 
module")
ovpn module")
Signed-off-by: Sidharth Seela <[email protected]>
---
v4:
        - Move changelog below sign-off.
        - Remove double-hyphens in commit description.
v3:
        - Use prefix net.
        - Remove so_txtime fix as default case calls error().
        - Changelog before sign-off.
        - Three dashes after sign-off
v2:
        - Use subsystem name "net".
        - Add fixes tags.
        - Remove txtimestamp fix as default case calls error.
        - Assign constant error string instead of NULL.


diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
index 9201f2905f2c..20d00378f34a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ static int ovpn_listen_mcast(void)
  {
        struct nl_sock *sock;
        struct nl_cb *cb;
-       int mcid, ret;
+       int mcid, ret = -1;

ret goes uninitialized only under the "if (!sock)" condition, therefore I'd rather assign ret a meaningful value instead of -1.

How about adding "err = -ENOMEM;" directly inside the if block?

sock = nl_socket_alloc();
        if (!sock) {
@@ -1936,7 +1936,7 @@ static int ovpn_run_cmd(struct ovpn_ctx *ovpn)
  {
        char peer_id[10], vpnip[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN], laddr[128], lport[10];
        char raddr[128], rport[10];
-       int n, ret;
+       int n, ret = -1;

Same here.
ret goes uninitialized only under the "CMD_INVALID" case.

How about adding "ret = -EINVAL;" inside the affected case?


Both values are returned by ovpn_run_cmd() and then printed as strerror(-ret). If we blindly use -1 we will get "Operation not permitted" which will confuse the user IMHO.

Thanks a lot!

        FILE *fp;
switch (ovpn->cmd) {

--
Antonio Quartulli
OpenVPN Inc.


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