From 668accf322fd7185e273bfd50b84320e71d9de5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:29:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] elf_getarsym: Silence -Werror=maybe-uninitialized false
 positive

Upstream-Status: Pending
Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
---
 libelf/elf_getarsym.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libelf/elf_getarsym.c b/libelf/elf_getarsym.c
index d0bb28a..08954d2 100644
--- a/libelf/elf_getarsym.c
+++ b/libelf/elf_getarsym.c
@@ -165,8 +165,13 @@ elf_getarsym (elf, ptr)
       int w = index64_p ? 8 : 4;
 
       /* We have an archive.  The first word in there is the number of
-	 entries in the table.  */
-      uint64_t n;
+	 entries in the table.
+	 Set to SIZE_MAX just to silence -Werror=maybe-uninitialized
+	 elf_getarsym.c:290:9: error: 'n' may be used uninitialized in this function
+	 The read_number_entries function doesn't initialize n only when returning
+	 -1 which in turn ensures to jump over usage of this uninitialized variable.
+	 */
+      uint64_t n = SIZE_MAX;
       size_t off = elf->start_offset + SARMAG + sizeof (struct ar_hdr);
       if (read_number_entries (&n, elf, &off, index64_p) < 0)
 	{
-- 
2.3.5