Re: [PATCH] mei: mei-amt-version: remove unneeded call of mei_deinit()

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Jan 03 2014 - 12:15:15 EST


Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Building mei-amt-version.o triggers a GCC warning:
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c: In function 'main':
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c:103:5: warning: 'acmd.fd' is used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
> if (cl->fd != -1)
> ^
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c:443:21: note: 'acmd.fd' was declared here
> struct amt_host_if acmd;
> ^
>
> GCC is correct. See, the call chain that GCC detects must be
> main()
> amt_host_if_init()
> mei_init()
> mei_deinit()
>
> But when we enter mei_deinit() struct amt_host_if acmd is still
> unitialized. That makes the test for (effectively) amt_host_if->mei_cl->fd
> bogus.
>
> But it turns out that call of mei_deinit() isn't needed at all. All of
> the members of mei_cl will be set later in mei_init() and none will be
> used before they are set. So we can simply drop this call of
> mei_deinit().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>

Builds without warning for me.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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