Re: [PATCH v2] target_core_alua: silence GCC warning

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 13:30:33 EST


On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:07 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Building target_core_alua.o triggers a GCC warning:
> drivers/target/target_core_alua.c: In function âtarget_alua_state_checkâ:
> drivers/target/target_core_alua.c:773:18: warning: âalua_ascqâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> cmd->scsi_ascq = alua_ascq;
> ^
>
> This is a false positive. A little trial and error shows it is
> apparently caused by core_alua_state_lba_dependent(). It must be hard
> for GCC to track the branches of a switch statement, inside a
> list_for_each_entry loop, inside a while loop.
>
> But if we add a small (inline) helper function we can reorganize the
> code a bit. That also allows to drop alua_ascq which, obviously, gets
> rid of this warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Make core_alua_state_nonoptimized() return void, as Geert
> suggested.
>
> Also keep core_alua_state_lba_dependent() inline. Setting that function
> noinline was just a leftover from the trial and error fase, and isn't
> needed to make the warning go away. Ie, I was sloppy in v1!
>
> Still compile tested only.
>
> drivers/target/target_core_alua.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>

Applied to target-pending/for-next.

Thanks Paul!

--nab

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