[PATCH] x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix 'may be used uninitialized' issue

From: Zhenzhong Duan
Date: Mon Sep 02 2019 - 05:31:46 EST


Builds kernel with "make bzImage EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Wall", gcc complains:

arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c: In function 'paging_prepare':
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c:92:7: warning: 'new' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
new = round_down(new, PAGE_SIZE);

In theory a random value of variable new may pass all the check and be
assigned to bios_start, fixing it by assigning it an initial value.

Fixes: 0a46fff2f910 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table")
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
index 2faddeb..c886269 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static unsigned long find_trampoline_placement(void)

/* Find the first usable memory region under bios_start. */
for (i = boot_params->e820_entries - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
- unsigned long new;
+ unsigned long new = bios_start;

entry = &boot_params->e820_table[i];

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