The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From fd37c2ecb21f7aee04ccca5f561469f07d00063c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:02:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] selftests: mptcp: Initialize variables to quiet gcc 12 warnings In a few MPTCP selftest tools, gcc 12 complains that the 'sock' variable might be used uninitialized. This is a false positive because the only code path that could lead to uninitialized access is where getaddrinfo() fails, but the local xgetaddrinfo() wrapper exits if such a failure occurs. Initialize the 'sock' variable anyway to allow the tools to build with gcc 12. Fixes: 048d19d444be ("mptcp: add basic kselftest for mptcp") Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c index 8628aa61b763..e2ea6c126c99 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static void sock_test_tcpulp(int sock, int proto, unsigned int line) static int sock_listen_mptcp(const char * const listenaddr, const char * const port) { - int sock; + int sock = -1; struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM, diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_inq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_inq.c index 29f75e2a1116..8672d898f8cd 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_inq.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_inq.c @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static void xgetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service, static int sock_listen_mptcp(const char * const listenaddr, const char * const port) { - int sock; + int sock = -1; struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM, diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.c index ac9a4d9c1764..ae61f39556ca 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static void xgetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service, static int sock_listen_mptcp(const char * const listenaddr, const char * const port) { - int sock; + int sock = -1; struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM,