The following warning is triggered when I used clang compiler to build the selftest. /.../prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c:368:6: warning: variable 'btf2' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "btf_dedup")) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /.../prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c:424:12: note: uninitialized use occurs here btf__free(btf2); ^~~~ /.../prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c:368:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "btf_dedup")) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /.../prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c:343:25: note: initialize the variable 'btf2' to silence this warning struct btf *btf1, *btf2; ^ = NULL Initialize local variable btf2 = NULL and the warning is gone. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c index 878a864dae3b..90aac437576d 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_dedup_split.c @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void btf_add_dup_struct_in_cu(struct btf *btf, int start_id) static void test_split_dup_struct_in_cu() { - struct btf *btf1, *btf2; + struct btf *btf1, *btf2 = NULL; int err; /* generate the base data.. */ -- 2.30.2