[PATCH 01/21] tracing: Clean up tb_fmt to not give faulty compile warning

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Sep 22 2011 - 18:14:12 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

gcc incorrectly states that the variable "fmt" is uninitialized when
CC_OPITMIZE_FOR_SIZE is set.

Instead of just blindly setting fmt to NULL, the code is cleaned up
a little to be a bit easier for humans to follow, as well as gcc
to know the variables are initialized.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_printk.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
index 1f06468..6fd4ffd 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
@@ -59,18 +59,19 @@ void hold_module_trace_bprintk_format(const char **start, const char **end)
continue;
}

+ fmt = NULL;
tb_fmt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tb_fmt), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tb_fmt)
+ if (tb_fmt) {
fmt = kmalloc(strlen(*iter) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tb_fmt && fmt) {
- list_add_tail(&tb_fmt->list, &trace_bprintk_fmt_list);
- strcpy(fmt, *iter);
- tb_fmt->fmt = fmt;
- *iter = tb_fmt->fmt;
- } else {
- kfree(tb_fmt);
- *iter = NULL;
+ if (fmt) {
+ list_add_tail(&tb_fmt->list, &trace_bprintk_fmt_list);
+ strcpy(fmt, *iter);
+ tb_fmt->fmt = fmt;
+ } else
+ kfree(tb_fmt);
}
+ *iter = fmt;
+
}
mutex_unlock(&btrace_mutex);
}
--
1.7.5.4


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