gcc-6.5 and earlier show a new warning: sound/soc/soc-compress.c: In function ‘soc_compr_open’: sound/soc/soc-compress.c:75:28: warning: ‘component’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] struct snd_soc_component *component, *save = NULL; ^~~~~~~~~ Simplest fix is to initialize it to avoid the warning. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202004201540.vYPhhYMs%25lkp@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-compress.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c index 50062eb79adb..e7bd80ed7f2e 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int soc_compr_components_free(struct snd_compr_stream *cstream, static int soc_compr_open(struct snd_compr_stream *cstream) { struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd = cstream->private_data; - struct snd_soc_component *component, *save = NULL; + struct snd_soc_component *component = NULL, *save = NULL; struct snd_soc_dai *cpu_dai = rtd->cpu_dai; int ret, i; -- 2.20.1