[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/10] net/vmxnet3: fix compile error with gcc 7

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu May 4 17:38:17 CEST 2017


GCC 7 flags a value as uninitialized before used. While it's a false
positive, there is little harm in providing an initial value for the
variable.

Fixes: bb1d14b87fc3 ("vmxnet3: fix link state handling")

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
index 0e8eb75..1cd72c1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ vmxnet3_dev_link_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 			__rte_unused int wait_to_complete)
 {
 	struct vmxnet3_hw *hw = dev->data->dev_private;
-	struct rte_eth_link old, link;
+	struct rte_eth_link old = {0}, link;
 	uint32_t ret;
 
 	/* Link status doesn't change for stopped dev */
-- 
2.9.3



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