Bug 77570 - bad source code
Summary: bad source code
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tcpdump
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-09 12:47 UTC by d.binderman
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-10 15:32:41 UTC
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Description d.binderman 2002-11-09 12:47:29 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en-gb]C-CCK-MCD NetscapeOnline.co.uk  (Win98; I)

Description of problem:

Hello there,

I just tried to compile package tcpdump-3.6.3-3 from Redhat 8.0.

Here are some of the compiler messages.

print-ip6opts.c:130: warning: `optlen' might be used uninitialized in this function

Here is a patch which fixes the messages.

*** ./tcpdump-3.6.2/print-ip6opts.c.old	2002-11-08 08:37:25.000000000 +0000
--- ./tcpdump-3.6.2/print-ip6opts.c	2002-11-08 08:38:44.000000000 +0000
***************
*** 127,133 ****
  ip6_opt_print(const u_char *bp, int len)
  {
      int i;
!     int optlen;
  
      for (i = 0; i < len; i += optlen) {
  	switch (bp[i]) {
--- 127,133 ----
  ip6_opt_print(const u_char *bp, int len)
  {
      int i;
!     int optlen = 0;
  
      for (i = 0; i < len; i += optlen) {
  	switch (bp[i]) {


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile the package
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Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2003-03-10 15:32:41 UTC
please report these kind of things upstream


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