After a recent bugfix, we get a warning about the use of an uninitialized variable: drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c: In function 'cfs_cpt_table_create_pattern': drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c:833:7: error: 'str' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] This part of the function used to not do anything as we would reassign the 'str' pointer to something else right away, but now we pass an uninitialized pointer into 'strchr', which can cause a kernel page fault or worse. Fixes: 239fd5d41f9b ("staging: lustre: libcfs: shortcut to create CPT from NUMA topology") Cc: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c index e8b1a61..1226cba 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c @@ -824,13 +824,6 @@ cfs_cpt_table_create_pattern(char *pattern) int ncpt; int c; - for (ncpt = 0;; ncpt++) { /* quick scan bracket */ - str = strchr(str, '['); - if (!str) - break; - str++; - } - str = cfs_trimwhite(pattern); if (*str == 'n' || *str == 'N') { pattern = str + 1; -- 2.9.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel