On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:26:38 +0200 Stefan Assmann wrote:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c: In function
> ‘i40e_set_vsi_promisc’:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c:1176:14: error: ‘aq_ret’
> may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> i40e_status aq_ret;
>
> In case the code inside the if statement and the for loop does not get
> executed aq_ret will be uninitialized when the variable gets returned at
> the end of the function.
>
> Avoid this by changing num_vlans from int to u16, so aq_ret always gets
> set. Making this change in additional places as num_vlans should never
> be negative.
>
> Fixes: 37d318d7805f ("i40e: Remove scheduling while atomic possibility")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassm...@kpanic.de>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org>
Good enough - in general unless you're trying to save space using types
other than unsigned int is not really worth it, and can slow the code
down - since 2B arithmetic is actually slowest on modern CPUs. But it's
not a fast path, so doesn't matter much.
