[PATCH] PCI: rpaphp: Avoid a sometimes-uninitialized warning

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 03:43:23 AEST 2019


When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, clang warns:

drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:243:14: warning: variable 'fndit' is
used uninitialized whenever 'for' loop exits because its condition is
false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
        for (j = 0; j < entries; j++) {
                    ^~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:256:6: note: uninitialized use occurs
here
        if (fndit)
            ^~~~~
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:243:14: note: remove the condition if
it is always true
        for (j = 0; j < entries; j++) {
                    ^~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:233:14: note: initialize the variable
'fndit' to silence this warning
        int j, fndit;
                    ^
                     = 0

Looking at the loop in a vacuum as clang would, fndit could be
uninitialized if entries was ever zero or the if statement was
always true within the loop. Regardless of whether or not this
warning is a problem in practice, "found" variables should always
be initialized to false so that there is no possibility of
undefined behavior.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/504
Fixes: 2fcf3ae508c2 ("hotplug/drc-info: Add code to search ibm,drc-info property")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c
index bcd5d357ca23..07b56bf2886f 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int rpaphp_check_drc_props_v2(struct device_node *dn, char *drc_name,
 	struct of_drc_info drc;
 	const __be32 *value;
 	char cell_drc_name[MAX_DRC_NAME_LEN];
-	int j, fndit;
+	int j, fndit = 0;
 
 	info = of_find_property(dn->parent, "ibm,drc-info", NULL);
 	if (info == NULL)
-- 
2.22.0.rc2



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