mac80211: initialize sta pointer to avoid false-positive warning

Some compilers (eg. gcc 4.4.1 for ARM) report a false positive warning
in mlme.c:

net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function 'ieee80211_prep_connection':
net/mac80211/mlme.c:3035: warning: 'sta' may be used uninitialized in this function

This is a false positive because the place where 'sta' is used is
inside an if with the same condition of where it is set:

[...]
        if (!have_sta) {
                sta = sta_info_alloc(sdata, cbss->bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!sta)
                        return -ENOMEM;
        }
[...]
        if (!have_sta) {
[...]
                sta->sta.supp_rates[cbss->channel->band] = rates;
[...]

For some reason the compiler doesn't understand this and warns.

While this is not a problem in the code itself, we can avoid polluting
the build logs with false positives by setting sta to NULL on
declaration and checking for sta instead of !have_sta in the second if.

Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 0f45d02..fa927c6 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -3012,7 +3012,7 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
        struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
        struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd;
        struct ieee80211_bss *bss = (void *)cbss->priv;
-       struct sta_info *sta;
+       struct sta_info *sta = NULL;
        bool have_sta = false;
        int err;
        int ht_cfreq;
@@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
        local->oper_channel = cbss->channel;
        ieee80211_hw_config(local, 0);
 
-       if (!have_sta) {
+       if (sta) {
                u32 rates = 0, basic_rates = 0;
                bool have_higher_than_11mbit;
                int min_rate = INT_MAX, min_rate_index = -1;