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") 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 464b27923ac0..6a31521f6ae0 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c @@ -829,13 +829,6 @@ cfs_cpt_table_create_pattern(char *pattern) int c; int i; - 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