gcc 8.2.0 may report these bogus warnings under some condition: warning: ‘vnew’ may be used uninitialized in this function warning: ‘hvs_new’ may be used uninitialized in this function Actually, the 2 pointers are only initialized and used if the variable "conn_from_host" is true. The code is not buggy here. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c index 8d1ea9eda8a2..cd3f47f54fa7 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c @@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ static void hvs_open_connection(struct vmbus_channel *chan) struct sockaddr_vm addr; struct sock *sk, *new = NULL; - struct vsock_sock *vnew; - struct hvsock *hvs, *hvs_new; + struct vsock_sock *vnew = NULL; + struct hvsock *hvs, *hvs_new = NULL; int ret; if_type = &chan->offermsg.offer.if_type; -- 2.19.1
