[PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/24] rcu: Shut up spurious gcc uninitialized-variable warning

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 18:31:23 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Because gcc doesn't realize that rcu_num_lvls must be strictly greater
than zero, some versions give a spurious warning about levelcnt[0] being
uninitialized in rcu_init_one(). This commit updates the condition on
the pre-existing panic() in order to educate gcc on this point.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index c34422d92aa9..9b076b284695 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -3982,9 +3982,9 @@ static void __init rcu_init_one(struct rcu_state *rsp,

BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_RCU_LVLS > ARRAY_SIZE(buf)); /* Fix buf[] init! */

- /* Silence gcc 4.8 warning about array index out of range. */
- if (rcu_num_lvls > RCU_NUM_LVLS)
- panic("rcu_init_one: rcu_num_lvls overflow");
+ /* Silence gcc 4.8 false positive about array index out of range. */
+ if (rcu_num_lvls <= 0 || rcu_num_lvls > RCU_NUM_LVLS)
+ panic("rcu_init_one: rcu_num_lvls out of range");

/* Initialize the level-tracking arrays. */

--
1.8.1.5

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