Re: [PATCH] block: avoid using uninitialized value in fromqueue_var_store

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 15:52:48 EST


On Wed, Apr 03 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions
> that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether
> that value was set or not.
>
> block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot':
> block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>
> Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive,
> writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has
> an undefined result, rather than returning an error.

Huh indeed, thanks Arnd. Queued up.

--
Jens Axboe

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