[PATCH v2 08/13] selftests: net: netlink-dumps: Avoid uninitialized variable warning

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:10:02 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel,gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel.bpf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The following warning is seen when building netlink-dumps.

netlink-dumps.c: In function ‘dump_extack’:
../kselftest_harness.h:788:35: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized

Problem is that the loop which initializes 'ret' may exit early without
initializing the variable if recv() returns an error. Always initialize
'ret' to solve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
---
v2: Update subject and description to reflect that the patch fixes a build
    warning. 

 tools/testing/selftests/net/netlink-dumps.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netlink-dumps.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netlink-dumps.c
index 679b6c77ace7..67bf3fc2d66b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netlink-dumps.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netlink-dumps.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static const struct {
 TEST(dump_extack)
 {
 	int netlink_sock;
-	int i, cnt, ret;
+	int i, cnt, ret = FOUND_ERR;
 	char buf[8192];
 	int one = 1;
 	ssize_t n;
-- 
2.45.2