Clang warns: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c:481:6: error: variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (IS_ERR(flow_rule)) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c:489:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here return err; ^~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c:481:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true if (IS_ERR(flow_rule)) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c:474:9: note: initialize the variable 'err' to silence this warning int err; ^ = 0 1 error generated. There is little reason to have the 'goto + error variable' construct in this function. Get rid of it and just return the PTR_ERR value in the if statement and 0 at the end. Fixes: 430e2d5e2a98 ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Move send to vport meta rule creation") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1695 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c index c8617a62e542..a977804137a8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c @@ -471,22 +471,18 @@ mlx5e_rep_add_meta_tunnel_rule(struct mlx5e_priv *priv) struct mlx5_eswitch_rep *rep = rpriv->rep; struct mlx5_flow_handle *flow_rule; struct mlx5_flow_group *g; - int err; g = esw->fdb_table.offloads.send_to_vport_meta_grp; if (!g) return 0; flow_rule = mlx5_eswitch_add_send_to_vport_meta_rule(esw, rep->vport); - if (IS_ERR(flow_rule)) { - err = PTR_ERR(flow_rule); - goto out; - } + if (IS_ERR(flow_rule)) + return PTR_ERR(flow_rule); rpriv->send_to_vport_meta_rule = flow_rule; -out: - return err; + return 0; } static void base-commit: c19d893fbf3f2f8fa864ae39652c7fee939edde2 -- 2.37.2