The connect function prints an unintialized error code after an
earlier initialization was removed:
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c: In function 'connect':
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:938:3: error: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
This prints it as -EINVAL instead, which seems to be the most
appropriate error code. Before the patch that caused the warning,
this would print a positive number returned by vsscanf() instead,
which is also wrong. We probably don't need a backport though,
as fixing the warning here should be sufficient.
Fixes: f95842e7a9f2 ("xen: make use of xenbus_read_unsigned() in xen-netback")
Fixes: 8d3d53b3e433 ("xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
From: Paul Durrant <hidden> Date: 2016-11-08 13:40:22
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Subject: [Xen PATCH] xen-netback: fix error handling output
The connect function prints an unintialized error code after an
earlier initialization was removed:
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c: In function 'connect':
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:938:3: error: 'err' may be used
uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
This prints it as -EINVAL instead, which seems to be the most
appropriate error code. Before the patch that caused the warning,
this would print a positive number returned by vsscanf() instead,
which is also wrong. We probably don't need a backport though,
as fixing the warning here should be sufficient.
Fixes: f95842e7a9f2 ("xen: make use of xenbus_read_unsigned() in xen-
netback")
Fixes: 8d3d53b3e433 ("xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Yes, I'd say EINVAL was most appropriate.
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <redacted>
The connect function prints an unintialized error code after an
earlier initialization was removed:
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c: In function 'connect':
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:938:3: error: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
This prints it as -EINVAL instead, which seems to be the most
appropriate error code. Before the patch that caused the warning,
this would print a positive number returned by vsscanf() instead,
which is also wrong. We probably don't need a backport though,
as fixing the warning here should be sufficient.
Fixes: f95842e7a9f2 ("xen: make use of xenbus_read_unsigned() in xen-netback")
Fixes: 8d3d53b3e433 ("xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
That first Fixes: commit mentioned is in neither of my trees, so I
assume it is in the Xen tree and thus this fix should get applied
there.
The connect function prints an unintialized error code after an
earlier initialization was removed:
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c: In function 'connect':
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:938:3: error: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
This prints it as -EINVAL instead, which seems to be the most
appropriate error code. Before the patch that caused the warning,
this would print a positive number returned by vsscanf() instead,
which is also wrong. We probably don't need a backport though,
as fixing the warning here should be sufficient.
Fixes: f95842e7a9f2 ("xen: make use of xenbus_read_unsigned() in xen-netback")
Fixes: 8d3d53b3e433 ("xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Applied to xen/tip.git for-linus-4.10
Thanks,
Juergen