[v3,2/2] efd: fix uninitialized structure

Message ID 20220225092745.883850-2-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series [v3,1/2] test/efd: fix size of constant |

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Commit Message

De Lara Guarch, Pablo Feb. 25, 2022, 9:27 a.m. UTC
  Coverity flags that both elements of efd_online_group_entry
are used uninitialized. This is OK because this structure
is initially used for starting values, so any value is OK.

Coverity ID: 375868
Fixes: 56b6ef874f80 ("efd: new Elastic Flow Distributor library")
Cc: pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yipeng Wang <yipeng1.wang@intel.com>
---

-v3: Fixed RHEL build
-v2: Fixed typo in commit message 

---
 lib/efd/rte_efd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Feb. 27, 2022, 5:59 p.m. UTC | #1
25/02/2022 10:27, Pablo de Lara:
> Coverity flags that both elements of efd_online_group_entry
> are used uninitialized. This is OK because this structure
> is initially used for starting values, so any value is OK.
> 
> Coverity ID: 375868
> Fixes: 56b6ef874f80 ("efd: new Elastic Flow Distributor library")
> Cc: pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Yipeng Wang <yipeng1.wang@intel.com>

Series applied, thanks.
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/efd/rte_efd.c b/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
index 560cd78961..bbc6fc585d 100644
--- a/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
+++ b/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@  rte_efd_update(struct rte_efd_table * const table, const unsigned int socket_id,
 {
 	uint32_t chunk_id = 0, group_id = 0, bin_id = 0;
 	uint8_t new_bin_choice = 0;
-	struct efd_online_group_entry entry;
+	struct efd_online_group_entry entry = {{0}};
 
 	int status = efd_compute_update(table, socket_id, key, value,
 			&chunk_id, &group_id, &bin_id,