From: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Date: Mon,  9 May 2016 21:47:23 +0200

> A recent commit introduced an unconditional use of an uninitialized
> variable, as reported in this gcc warning:
> 
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: In function '__nf_conntrack_confirm':
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:632:33: error: 'ctinfo' may be used 
> uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>    bytes = atomic64_read(&counter[CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo)].bytes);
>                                  ^
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:628:26: note: 'ctinfo' was declared here
>    enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
> 
> The problem is that a local variable shadows the function parameter.
> This removes the local variable, which looks like what Pablo originally
> intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 71d8c47fc653 ("netfilter: conntrack: introduce clash resolution on 
> insertion race")

Applied.

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