Re: warnings in current tree

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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.
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