Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvnic: Fix possibly uninitialized old_num_tx_queues variable warning.

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 12:55:21 -0800

Michal Suchanek [[email-masked]] wrote:
> GCC 7.5 reports:
> ../drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c: In function 'ibmvnic_reset_init':
> ../drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:5373:51: warning: 'old_num_tx_queues' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> ../drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:5373:6: warning: 'old_num_rx_queues' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The variable is initialized only if(reset) and used only if(reset &&
> something) so this is a false positive. However, there is no reason to
> not initialize the variables unconditionally avoiding the warning.

Yeah, its a false positive, but initializing doesn't hurt.
> 
> Fixes: 635e442f4a48 ("ibmvnic: merge ibmvnic_reset_init and ibmvnic_init")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <[email-masked]>

Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email-masked]>