Re: [PATCH] [rfc, netfilter-next] netfilter: nf_tables: fib warnings

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On Friday, October 28, 2016 5:50:31 PM CEST Florian Westphal wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The newly added nft fib code produces two warnings:
> > 
> > net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c: In function 'nft_fib4_eval':
> > net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c:80:6: error: unused variable 'i' [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c: In function ‘nft_fib4_eval’:
> > net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c:137:6: error: ‘oif’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> > 
> > The first one is obvious as the only user of that variable is
> > inside of an #ifdef, but the second one is a bit trickier.
> > It is clear that 'oif' is uninitialized here if neither
> > NFTA_FIB_F_OIF nor NFTA_FIB_F_IIF are set.
> > 
> > I have no idea how that should be handled, this patch just
> > returns without doing anything, which may or may not be
> > the right thing to do.
> 
> It should be initialized to NULL.

Ok, I had considered that, but wasn't sure if ->nh_dev could
ever be NULL, as that would then get dereferenced.

	Arnd

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