The variable in practice will never be uninitialized, because the loop will always go through at least one iteration. In case it would not, make vcpu_get_cpuid report an assertion failure. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c index de0c76177d02..a8906e60a108 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c @@ -720,7 +720,8 @@ struct kvm_cpuid2 *vcpu_get_cpuid(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpuid) { struct vcpu *vcpu = vcpu_find(vm, vcpuid); struct kvm_cpuid2 *cpuid; - int rc, max_ent; + int max_ent; + int rc = -1; TEST_ASSERT(vcpu != NULL, "vcpu not found, vcpuid: %u", vcpuid); -- 2.26.2