[PATCH] net/hnic3: fix possible uninitialized return value

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jul 23 19:59:05 CEST 2026


The code to enable fdir filter assumes entry is present.
If not found it would return uninitialized value.

Bugzilla ID: 1964
Fixes: efa3b9b36fc7 ("net/hinic3: add flow control and filters")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/hinic3/hinic3_fdir.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hinic3/hinic3_fdir.c b/drivers/net/hinic3/hinic3_fdir.c
index 37a4f0cf52..71d50a3d22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hinic3/hinic3_fdir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hinic3/hinic3_fdir.c
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ hinic3_enable_rxq_fdir_filter(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint32_t queue_id, uint32
 	struct hinic3_nic_dev *nic_dev = HINIC3_ETH_DEV_TO_PRIVATE_NIC_DEV(dev);
 	struct hinic3_tcam_filter *it;
 	struct hinic3_tcam_cfg_rule fdir_tcam_rule;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = -EINVAL;
 	uint32_t queue_res;
 	uint16_t index;
 
-- 
2.53.0



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