We return an uninitialized variable on success: net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c:793:6: error: variable 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (snet->hook_ref4 == 0) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Initialize the return code to zero first. Fixes: d7f9b2f18eae ("netfilter: synproxy: extract SYNPROXY infrastructure from {ipt, ip6t}_SYNPROXY") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c index 50677285f82e..283686e972a0 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ static const struct nf_hook_ops ipv4_synproxy_ops[] = { int nf_synproxy_ipv4_init(struct synproxy_net *snet, struct net *net) { - int err; + int err = 0; if (snet->hook_ref4 == 0) { err = nf_register_net_hooks(net, ipv4_synproxy_ops, @@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ static const struct nf_hook_ops ipv6_synproxy_ops[] = { int nf_synproxy_ipv6_init(struct synproxy_net *snet, struct net *net) { - int err; + int err = 0; if (snet->hook_ref6 == 0) { err = nf_register_net_hooks(net, ipv6_synproxy_ops, -- 2.20.0