[PATCH master 3/4] fs: efivarfs: initialize dummy data written on variable creation
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Aug 31 06:24:53 PDT 2026
Building with clang reports:
error: variable 'dummydata' is uninitialized when passed as a
const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer]
Fix this by initializing the variable.
Fixes: 46b5a6d6527f ("fs: efivars: implement write support")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
fs/efivarfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs.c b/fs/efivarfs.c
index 1f53c06d66d3..b9f514c51cd9 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int efivars_create(struct device *dev, const char *pathname,
struct efivarfs_inode *inode;
efi_guid_t vendor;
efi_status_t efiret;
- u8 dummydata;
+ u8 dummydata = 0;
char *name8;
s16 *name;
int ret;
--
2.47.3
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