[ I trimmed the CC list because this is probably a false positive and netdev hates static checker warnings. - dan ] Hi Eric, url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Eric-Dumazet/inet-make-exception-handling-less-predictible/20210830-061726 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git 57f780f1c43362b86fd23d20bd940e2468237716 config: x86_64-randconfig-m001-20210829 (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> smatch warnings: net/ipv4/route.c:606 fnhe_remove_oldest() error: potentially dereferencing uninitialized 'oldest_p'. vim +/oldest_p +606 net/ipv4/route.c adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 589 static void fnhe_remove_oldest(struct fnhe_hash_bucket *hash) 4895c771c7f006b David S. Miller 2012-07-17 590 { adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 591 struct fib_nh_exception __rcu **fnhe_p, **oldest_p; adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 592 struct fib_nh_exception *fnhe, *oldest = NULL; 4895c771c7f006b David S. Miller 2012-07-17 593 adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 594 for (fnhe_p = &hash->chain; ; fnhe_p = &fnhe->fnhe_next) { adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 595 fnhe = rcu_dereference_protected(*fnhe_p, adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 596 lockdep_is_held(&fnhe_lock)); adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 597 if (!fnhe) adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 598 break; Smatch is complaining that this could break on the first iteration through the loop... adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 599 if (!oldest || adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 600 time_before(fnhe->fnhe_stamp, oldest->fnhe_stamp)) { 4895c771c7f006b David S. Miller 2012-07-17 601 oldest = fnhe; adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 602 oldest_p = fnhe_p; adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 603 } 4895c771c7f006b David S. Miller 2012-07-17 604 } 2ffae99d1fac272 Timo Teräs 2013-06-27 605 fnhe_flush_routes(oldest); adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 @606 *oldest_p = oldest->fnhe_next; adf305d00ec06cb Eric Dumazet 2021-08-29 607 kfree_rcu(oldest, rcu); 4895c771c7f006b David S. Miller 2012-07-17 608 } --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@xxxxxxxxxxxx