[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "scripts/sortextable: suppress warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    scripts/sortextable: suppress warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 2b12afabf1bf20bdb7c5e0fee3a8cb217397e767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:54:20 -0700
Subject: scripts/sortextable: suppress warning: `relocs_size' may be used
 uninitialized

commit 7cbc0ea79da2cbe70d8da9319895f07f872a3190 upstream.

In file included from scripts/sortextable.c:194:0:
scripts/sortextable.c: In function `main':
scripts/sortextable.h:176:3: warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   memset(relocs, 0, relocs_size);
   ^
scripts/sortextable.h:106:6: note: `relocs_size' was declared here
  int relocs_size;
      ^
In file included from scripts/sortextable.c:192:0:
scripts/sortextable.h:176:3: warning: `relocs_size' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   memset(relocs, 0, relocs_size);
   ^
scripts/sortextable.h:106:6: note: `relocs_size' was declared here
  int relocs_size;
      ^

gcc 4.9.1

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles at oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 scripts/sortextable.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.h b/scripts/sortextable.h
index 8fac3fd697a6..ba8700428e21 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.h
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.h
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 	Elf_Sym *sort_needed_sym;
 	Elf_Shdr *sort_needed_sec;
 	Elf_Rel *relocs = NULL;
-	int relocs_size;
+	int relocs_size = 0;
 	uint32_t *sort_done_location;
 	const char *secstrtab;
 	const char *strtab;