Fix two compiler warnings that are new with recent versions of gcc
(apparently 4.2 and up).  One is fixed by refactoring; this change was
supplied by Stephen Hemminger.  The other was fixed by labelling the
variable as uninitialized_var() after confirming via inspection that it
cannot actually be used uninitialized.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>