[PATCH] aic94xx: fix handling of default CTRL-A settings

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Sep 25 2012 - 08:07:34 EST


Compiling aic94xx_sds.o (part of the aic94xx driver) triggers this GCC
warning:
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c: In function 'asd_read_flash':
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:597:21: warning: 'offs' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:985:6: note: 'offs' was declared here

This warning can be traced back to asd_find_flash_de(). If it fails to
find a FLASH_DE_CTRL_A_USER entry it will return without setting 'offs'.
And that will leave 'offs' uninitialized when asd_read_flash_seg() is
called a little later.

But that call of asd_read_flash_seg() isn't needed in that case.
Everything this code cares about can already be found in the "default
CTRL-A user settings section" that was created in the error path. So
let's just jump over that call (and all other unneeded code) after
creating that section.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
0) I noticed this warning while building v3.6-rc7 on current Fedora
17, using Fedora's default config.

1) Compile tested only. It might be best to run test this too, if only
to test whether the non-error path is unaffected.

2) This piece of code has not been touched ever since it was added in
v2.6.19, with commit 2908d778ab3e244900c310974e1fc1c69066e450 ("[SCSI]
aic94xx: new driver"). So, given the current code, chances are that a
"CTRL-A user settings section" is always present and the code to create
a default section might as well be dropped. So perhaps a more drastic
patch is preferable.

drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c
index edb43fd..ecb4a1c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static int asd_process_ctrl_a_user(struct asd_ha_struct *asd_ha,
{
int err, i;
u32 offs, size;
- struct asd_ll_el *el;
+ struct asd_ll_el *el = NULL;
struct asd_ctrla_phy_settings *ps;
struct asd_ctrla_phy_settings dflt_ps;

@@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ static int asd_process_ctrl_a_user(struct asd_ha_struct *asd_ha,

size = sizeof(struct asd_ctrla_phy_settings);
ps = &dflt_ps;
+ goto ctrla_phy_settings;
}

if (size == 0)
@@ -1029,6 +1030,7 @@ static int asd_process_ctrl_a_user(struct asd_ha_struct *asd_ha,
goto out2;
}

+ctrla_phy_settings:
err = asd_process_ctrla_phy_settings(asd_ha, ps);
if (err) {
ASD_DPRINTK("couldn't process ctrla phy settings\n");
--
1.7.11.4

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