Re: [PATCH net v5] selftest:net: Fix uninit return values
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-09-30 12:50:03
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Since it's now only to ovpn, better prefix, which matches other patches in that directory, is "selftest/net/ovpn:" Btw, review the posting rules. Leave 24 hours between reposts: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html Sidharth Seela wrote:
Fix functions that return undefined values. These issues were caught by
running clang using LLVM=1 option.
Clang warnings 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;
| ^
|
Fixes: 959bc330a439 ("testing/selftests: add test tool and scripts for ovpn module")
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Signed-off-by: Sidharth Seela <redacted> --- v5: - Assign -ENOMEM to ret inside if block. - Assign -EINVAL to ret inside case block. v4: - Move changelog below sign-off. - Remove double-hyphens in commit description. v3: - Use prefix net. - Remove so_txtime fix as default case calls error(). - Changelog before sign-off. - Three dashes after sign-off v2: - Use subsystem name "net". - Add fixes tags. - Remove txtimestamp fix as default case calls error. - Assign constant error string instead of NULL.diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c index 9201f2905f2c..8d0f2f61923c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ovpn/ovpn-cli.c@@ -1586,6 +1586,7 @@ static int ovpn_listen_mcast(void) sock = nl_socket_alloc(); if (!sock) { fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate netlink socket\n"); + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_free; }@@ -2105,6 +2106,7 @@ static int ovpn_run_cmd(struct ovpn_ctx *ovpn) ret = ovpn_listen_mcast(); break; case CMD_INVALID: + ret = -EINVAL; break; }-- 2.47.3