[PATCH v7 10/10] bpf: fix uninitialized warning

Marat Khalili marat.khalili at huawei.com
Thu Jul 23 10:12:50 CEST 2026


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday 22 July 2026 17:05
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>; stable at dpdk.org; Konstantin Ananyev
> <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com>; Marat Khalili <marat.khalili at huawei.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v7 10/10] bpf: fix uninitialized warning
> 
> Coverity complains uninitialized use of structure.
> 
> Coverity issue: 504611
> Fixes: 17509d474226 ("bpf/validate: fix BPF_ADD of pointer to a scalar")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c b/lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c
> index f9960088a2..44db85a5a3 100644
> --- a/lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c
> +++ b/lib/bpf/bpf_validate.c
> @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ eval_apply_mask(struct bpf_reg_val *rv, uint64_t mask)
>  static void
>  eval_add(struct bpf_reg_val *rd, const struct bpf_reg_val *rs, uint64_t msk)
>  {
> -	struct bpf_reg_val rs_buf;
> +	struct bpf_reg_val rs_buf = { 0 };
>  	struct bpf_reg_val rv;
> 
>  	if (RTE_BPF_ARG_PTR_TYPE(rs->v.type) != 0) {
> --
> 2.53.0

Acked-by: Marat Khalili <marat.khalili at huawei.com>


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