Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igc: Do not use link uninitialized in igc_check_for_copper_link

From: Neftin, Sasha
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 12:29:10 EST


On 7/16/2020 07:49, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
Clang warns:

Hello Nathan,
Thanks for tracking our code.Please, look at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-lan/patch/20200709073416.14126-1-sasha.neftin@xxxxxxxxx/ - I hope this patch already address this Clang warns - please, let me know.
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c:374:6: warning: variable 'link'
is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
[-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (!mac->get_link_status) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c:424:33: note: uninitialized use
occurs here
ret_val = igc_set_ltr_i225(hw, link);
^~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c:374:2: note: remove the 'if' if
its condition is always false
if (!mac->get_link_status) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c:367:11: note: initialize the
variable 'link' to silence this warning
bool link;
^
= 0
1 warning generated.

It is not wrong, link is only uninitialized after this through
igc_phy_has_link. Presumably, if we skip the majority of this function
when get_link_status is false, we should skip calling igc_set_ltr_i225
as well. Just directly return 0 in this case, rather than bothering with
adding another label or initializing link in the if statement.

Fixes: 707abf069548 ("igc: Add initial LTR support")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1095
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c
index b47e7b0a6398..26e3c56a4a8b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_mac.c
@@ -371,10 +371,8 @@ s32 igc_check_for_copper_link(struct igc_hw *hw)
* get_link_status flag is set upon receiving a Link Status
* Change or Rx Sequence Error interrupt.
*/
- if (!mac->get_link_status) {
- ret_val = 0;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (!mac->get_link_status)
+ return 0;
/* First we want to see if the MII Status Register reports
* link. If so, then we want to get the current speed/duplex

base-commit: ca0e494af5edb59002665bf12871e94b4163a257

Thanks,
Sasha