Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau: hide gcc-4.9 -Wmaybe-uninitialized

From: Karol Herbst
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 11:51:08 EST


uhh, that function looks so odd, ... yeah. Change looks fine.

Reviewed-By: Karol Herbst <karolherbst@xxxxxxxxx>

2016-10-24 17:30 GMT+02:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
> gcc-4.9 notices that the validate_init() function returns unintialized
> data when called with a zero 'nr_buffers' argument, when called with the
> -Wmaybe-uninitialized flag:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c: In function âvalidate_init.isra.6â:
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c:457:5: error: âretâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> However, the only caller of this function always passes a nonzero
> argument, and gcc-6 is clever enough to take this into account and
> not warn about it any more.
>
> Adding an explicit initialization to -EINVAL here is correct even if
> the caller changed, and it avoids the warning on gcc-4.9 as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
> index 0bd7164bc817..4f3c5f3eaa16 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ validate_init(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct drm_file *file_priv,
> {
> struct nouveau_cli *cli = nouveau_cli(file_priv);
> int trycnt = 0;
> - int ret, i;
> + int ret = -EINVAL, i;
> struct nouveau_bo *res_bo = NULL;
> LIST_HEAD(gart_list);
> LIST_HEAD(vram_list);
> --
> 2.9.0
>
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