From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:06 +0200 > Hi David! > > David Miller wrote: >> From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:43:57 -0700 (PDT) >> >> Sorry, duh, meant netfilter-devel :-) >> >>> Can someone fix these up? Thanks! >>> >>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:1234: warning: 'helpname' may be used uninitialized in this function >>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:991: warning: 'helpname' may be used uninitialized in this function > > Hm, weird, is this a "bogus punch"? I don't remember to have seen those > here and that code has not been modified recently. > > Anyway, patch attached :). Applied, thanks :-) The problem is when you pass the address of a local variable to a function, which is then inlined and has non-trivial control flow (as far as GCC is concerned), and this is the way the variable is initialized. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html