On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 08:56:52PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > This patch suppresses the following sparse warning: [...] > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c > index 0677295957bc..5683126e0cbc 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c > @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ qla82xx_pinit_from_rom(scsi_qla_host_t *vha) > int i ; > struct crb_addr_pair *buf; > unsigned long off; > - unsigned offset, n; > + unsigned offset, n = 0; > struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw; > > struct crb_addr_pair { I think sparse is not able to see that n is initialized before it is used. /* Read the signature value from the flash. * Offset 0: Contain signature (0xcafecafe) * Offset 4: Offset and number of addr/value pairs * that present in CRB initialize sequence */ n = 0; if (qla82xx_rom_fast_read(ha, 0, &n) != 0 || n != 0xcafecafeUL || qla82xx_rom_fast_read(ha, 4, &n) != 0) { ql_log(ql_log_fatal, vha, 0x006e, "Error Reading crb_init area: n: %08x.\n", n); return -1; } I suppose this n = 0 should be dropped if n is initialized at the beginning of the function.