[PATCH v2 6/7] net: nb8800: avoid uninitialized variable warning

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jan 29 03:39:14 PST 2016


The nb8800_poll() function initializes the 'next' variable in the
loop looking for new input data. We know this will be called at
least once because 'budget' is a guaranteed to be a positive number
when we enter the function, but the compiler doesn't know that
and warns when the variable is used later:

drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c: In function 'nb8800_poll':
drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c:350:21: warning: 'next' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Changing the 'while() {}' loop to 'do {} while()' makes it obvious
to the compiler what is going on so it no longer warns.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
index ecc4a334c507..f71ab2647a3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int nb8800_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 	nb8800_tx_done(dev);
 
 again:
-	while (work < budget) {
+	do {
 		struct nb8800_rx_buf *rxb;
 		unsigned int len;
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ again:
 		rxd->report = 0;
 		last = next;
 		work++;
-	}
+	} while (work < budget);
 
 	if (work) {
 		priv->rx_descs[last].desc.config |= DESC_EOC;
-- 
2.7.0




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