[PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jul 21 2016 - 15:29:47 EST


gcc-4.9 and higher warn about the newly added NSCI code:

net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c: In function 'ncsi_process_next_channel':
net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c:1003:2: error: 'old_state' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

The warning is a false positive and therefore harmless, but it would be good to
avoid it anyway. I have determined that the barrier in the spin_unlock_irqsave()
is what confuses gcc to the point that it cannot track whether the variable
was unused or not.

This rearranges the code in a way that makes it obvious to gcc that old_state
is always initialized at the time of use, functionally this should not
change anything.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
index d627a39ddcd0..ef017b871857 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
@@ -982,23 +982,18 @@ int ncsi_process_next_channel(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp)
spin_lock_irqsave(&ndp->lock, flags);
nc = list_first_or_null_rcu(&ndp->channel_queue,
struct ncsi_channel, link);
- if (nc) {
- old_state = xchg(&nc->state, NCSI_CHANNEL_INVISIBLE);
- list_del_init(&nc->link);
+ if (!nc) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ndp->lock, flags);
+ goto out;
}
+
+ old_state = xchg(&nc->state, NCSI_CHANNEL_INVISIBLE);
+ list_del_init(&nc->link);
+
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ndp->lock, flags);

ndp->active_channel = nc;
- ndp->active_package = nc ? nc->package : NULL;
- if (!nc) {
- if (ndp->flags & NCSI_DEV_RESHUFFLE) {
- ndp->flags &= ~NCSI_DEV_RESHUFFLE;
- return ncsi_choose_active_channel(ndp);
- }
-
- ncsi_report_link(ndp, false);
- return -ENODEV;
- }
+ ndp->active_package = nc->package;

switch (old_state) {
case NCSI_CHANNEL_INACTIVE:
@@ -1017,6 +1012,17 @@ int ncsi_process_next_channel(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp)
}

return 0;
+
+out:
+ ndp->active_channel = NULL;
+ ndp->active_package = NULL;
+ if (ndp->flags & NCSI_DEV_RESHUFFLE) {
+ ndp->flags &= ~NCSI_DEV_RESHUFFLE;
+ return ncsi_choose_active_channel(ndp);
+ }
+
+ ncsi_report_link(ndp, false);
+ return -ENODEV;
}

#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
--
2.9.0