Re: [PATCH 21.11] net/softnic: fix maybe-uninitialized warning

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 11/09/2024 15:12, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> In pmd_mtr_stats_read() 'struct rte_mtr_stats s' is initialized
> during the call to mtr_stats_convert() but on some systems it
> is triggering a compiler warning. e.g.
> 
> drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c:916:25: error: 's'
>    may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Initialize the struct in pmd_mtr_stats_read() to avoid warnings.
> 
> Reported-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c b/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
> index 6b02f43e31..fea26f9c14 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
> @@ -904,5 +904,5 @@ pmd_mtr_stats_read(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>  	/* Stats format conversion. */
>  	if (stats || stats_mask) {
> -		struct rte_mtr_stats s;
> +		struct rte_mtr_stats s = {0};

Even though I checked in godbolt, this failed CI for rhel7 gcc 4.8.5
because of the added -Wall, so I will, change to "= {};", re-run CI and
apply with that change if all good.

>  		uint64_t s_mask = 0;
>