[Skiboot] [PATCH] sensors: dts: Fix uninitialised data in dts result when reading asynchronously

[Stewart Smith]

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:01:26 +1100
> Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
>> > dts_async_read_temp() must zero its on-stack dts structure, similarly
>> > to dts_sensor_read().
>> >
>> > Cc: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > Cc: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > The used uninitialized warning showed up when I tried to compile
>> > skiboot with -O2. Too bad -Os and other static checkers didn't
>> > catch it.  
>> 
>> Any idea what gcc gave it? I think the warning is wrong, as we have the
>> struct being initialized to zero:
>> 
>> static void dts_async_read_temp(struct timer *t __unused, void *data,
>>                                 u64 now __unused)
>> {
>>         struct dts dts = {0};
>> 
>> which, according to K&R should mean all members are zeroed.
>> 
>> Or am I suitably jetlagged and missing something?
>> 
>
> Yeah it wasn't in the tree until just now... I missed that it was
> in Cyril's fixes, so this patch can be dropped.

Good-o. Patch dropped. Normal jetlagged programming resumes...


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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.