Re: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre2] fix undefined behaviour in cistpl.c

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:17:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Compiling drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c with gcc-4.0 generates this warning:
> 
> cistpl.c: In function 'read_cis_mem':
> cistpl.c:143: warning: 'sys' is used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Note 'is' not 'may be'. And there is indeed a control flow path in
> which 'sys' is updated with '+=' even though it has no initial value.
> Luckily 'sys' is reassigned later before being used, making this
> assignment redundant, so the fix is to simply remove it.

Indeed - applied, thanks Mikael.

> This problem is not present in the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> --- linux-2.4.30-pre2/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c.~1~	2004-02-18 15:16:23.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.4.30-pre2/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c	2005-03-05 15:51:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ int read_cis_mem(socket_info_t *s, int a
>      } else {
>  	u_int inc = 1;
>  	if (attr) { mem->flags |= MAP_ATTRIB; inc++; addr *= 2; }
> -	sys += (addr & (s->cap.map_size-1));
>  	mem->card_start = addr & ~(s->cap.map_size-1);
>  	while (len) {
>  	    set_cis_map(s, mem);
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