Re: [PATCH] hid: Fix uninitialized variable "size" in hid-wiimote-debug

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CC'ing Jiri so he can apply it to hid-next.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, David Herrmann
<dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Simon
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Simon Que <sque@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This variable is initialized conditionally, based on whether a wiimote
>> call succeeds.  However, the logic is not obvious to the compiler so it
>> throws a warning.  Eliminate the warning by initializing "size" to 0.
>
> Hm, I think it says:
>
>   54         ret = wiimote_cmd_wait(wdata);
>   55         if (!ret)
>   56                 size = wdata->state.cmd_read_size;
>
> ...not touching "size" or "ret" inbetween...
>
>   64         if (ret)
>   65                 return ret;
>
> ...using "size" below...
>
> Weird that gcc cannot figure that out that there is no path to line 66
> where "size" is uninitialized. Anyway, I am fine with this fix. We
> test for "size == 0" anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Next time please copy the gcc-warning message verbatim into the
> commit-message so we can more easily reproduce this and see which line
> is affected.
>
> Thanks for the patch
> David
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