gcc can get confused by this code and it thinks dev_features can be returned uninitialized. So initialize to NULL at the beginning to shut up the warning. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h b/include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h index c451eec42a83..270b251a3d9b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/cec-funcs.h @@ -895,6 +895,7 @@ static inline void cec_ops_report_features(const struct cec_msg *msg, *cec_version = msg->msg[2]; *all_device_types = msg->msg[3]; *rc_profile = p; + *dev_features = NULL; while (p < &msg->msg[14] && (*p & CEC_OP_FEAT_EXT)) p++; if (!(*p & CEC_OP_FEAT_EXT)) {