[PATCH] powerpc: fix uninitialised variable in VSX alignment code

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu Aug 28 14:57:39 EST 2008


This fixes an uninitialised variable in the VSX alignment code.  It can
cause warnings from GCC (noticed with GCC 4.1.1).

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
paulus: for your 2.6.27 tree.

Kudos to paulus for finding this.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static int emulate_vsx(unsigned char __u
 		       unsigned int flags, unsigned int length)
 {
 	char *ptr = (char *) &current->thread.TS_FPR(reg);
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	flush_vsx_to_thread(current);



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