This is to silence an uninitialized variable warning in debug output. The problem is this line: pr_debug("vhost_get_vq_desc: head: %d, out: %u in: %u\n", head, out, in); If "head == vq->num" is true on the first iteration then "out" and "in" aren't initialized. We handle that a few lines after the printk. I was tempted to just delete the pr_debug() but I decided to just initialize them to zero instead. Also checkpatch.pl complains if variables are declared as just "unsigned" without the "int". Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c index 253310c..b98dac1 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ vhost_scsi_handle_vq(struct vhost_scsi *vs, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq) struct iov_iter out_iter, in_iter, prot_iter, data_iter; u64 tag; u32 exp_data_len, data_direction; - unsigned out, in; + unsigned int out = 0, in = 0; int head, ret, prot_bytes; size_t req_size, rsp_size = sizeof(struct virtio_scsi_cmd_resp); size_t out_size, in_size; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html