[PATCH] selftest:net: Fix uninit pointers and return values
From: Sidharth Seela <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-29 11:44:49
Also in:
linux-kselftest, lkml, llvm
Subsystem:
kernel selftest framework, networking [general], openvpn data channel offload, socket timestamping, the rest · Maintainers:
Shuah Khan, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Antonio Quartulli, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds
Fix uninitialized character pointers, and functions that return
undefined values. These issues were caught by running clang using LLVM=1
option; and are as follows:
--
ovpn-cli.c:1587:6: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
1587 | if (!sock) {
| ^~~~~
ovpn-cli.c:1635:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
1635 | return ret;
| ^~~
ovpn-cli.c:1587:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
1587 | if (!sock) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
1588 | fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate netlink socket\n");
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1589 | goto err_free;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1590 | }
| ~
ovpn-cli.c:1584:15: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
1584 | int mcid, ret;
| ^
| = 0
ovpn-cli.c:2107:7: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever switch case is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
2107 | case CMD_INVALID:
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
ovpn-cli.c:2111:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
2111 | return ret;
| ^~~
ovpn-cli.c:1939:12: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
1939 | int n, ret;
| ^
|
--
txtimestamp.c:240:2: warning: variable 'tsname' is used uninitialized whenever switch default is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
240 | default:
| ^~~~~~~
txtimestamp.c:244:20: note: uninitialized use occurs here
244 | __print_timestamp(tsname, &tss->ts[0], tskey, payload_len);
| ^~~~~~
txtimestamp.c:220:20: note: initialize the variable 'tsname' to silence this warning
220 | const char *tsname;
| ^
| = NULL
--
so_txtime.c:210:3: warning: variable 'reason' is used uninitialized whenever switch default is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
210 | default:
| ^~~~~~~
so_txtime.c:219:27: note: uninitialized use occurs here
219 | data[ret - 1], tstamp, reason);
| ^~~~~~
so_txtime.c:177:21: note: initialize the variable 'reason' to silence this warning
177 | const char *reason;
| ^
|
--
Signed-off-by: Sidharth Seela <redacted>
---
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
index 9201f2905f2c..20d00378f34a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ static int ovpn_listen_mcast(void) { struct nl_sock *sock; struct nl_cb *cb; - int mcid, ret; + int mcid, ret = -1; sock = nl_socket_alloc(); if (!sock) {
@@ -1936,7 +1936,7 @@ static int ovpn_run_cmd(struct ovpn_ctx *ovpn) { char peer_id[10], vpnip[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN], laddr[128], lport[10]; char raddr[128], rport[10]; - int n, ret; + int n, ret = -1; FILE *fp; switch (ovpn->cmd) {
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/so_txtime.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/so_txtime.c
index 8457b7ccbc09..b76df1efc2ef 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/so_txtime.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/so_txtime.c@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int do_recv_errqueue_timeout(int fdt) msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(control); while (1) { - const char *reason; + const char *reason = NULL; ret = recvmsg(fdt, &msg, MSG_ERRQUEUE); if (ret == -1 && errno == EAGAIN)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/txtimestamp.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/txtimestamp.c
index dae91eb97d69..bcc14688661d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/txtimestamp.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/txtimestamp.c@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static void print_timestamp_usr(void) static void print_timestamp(struct scm_timestamping *tss, int tstype, int tskey, int payload_len) { - const char *tsname; + const char *tsname = NULL; validate_key(tskey, tstype);
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