Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: prevent uninitialized variable warning in check_svme()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri May 19 2017 - 09:32:23 EST


On 18.05.2017 19:37, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
> get_msr() of MSR_EFER is currently always going to succeed, but static
> checker doesn't see that far.
>
> Don't complicate stuff and just use 0 for the fallback -- it means that
> the feature is not present.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index c25cfaf584e7..0816ab2e8adc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@ static int check_dr_write(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>
> static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
> {
> - u64 efer;
> + u64 efer = 0;
>
> ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer);
>
>

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,

David