Re: [PATCH] net/smc: Fix preinitialization of buf_desc in __smc_buf_create()

[Ursula Braun]

On 11/16/2017 12:22 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> With gcc-4.1.2:
> 
>     net/smc/smc_core.c: In function â__smc_buf_createâ:
>     net/smc/smc_core.c:567: warning: âbufsizeâ may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Indeed, if the for-loop is never executed, bufsize is used
> uninitialized.  In addition, buf_desc is stored for later use, while it
> is still a NULL pointer.
> 
> Before, error handling was done by checking if buf_desc is non-NULL.
> The cleanup changed this to an error check, but forgot to update the
> preinitialization of buf_desc to an error pointer.
> 
> Update the preinitializatin of buf_desc to fix this.
> 
> Fixes: b33982c3a6838d13 ("net/smc: cleanup function __smc_buf_create()")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I don't know if this can ever happen, but the old code handled it.

The for-loop is at least executed once; thus there is no real problem.
Nevertheless the warning is ugly, and the current initialization with NULL
meaningless after the smc_buf cleanup. Therefore I add your patch to my list of
coming smc patches. Thanks!

> ---
>  net/smc/smc_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
> index 2578fbd95664af84..453c54467082d93f 100644
> --- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
> +++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
> @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int __smc_buf_create(struct smc_sock *smc, bool is_rmb)
>  {
>  	struct smc_connection *conn = &smc->conn;
>  	struct smc_link_group *lgr = conn->lgr;
> -	struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc = NULL;
> +	struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	struct list_head *buf_list;
>  	int bufsize, bufsize_short;
>  	int sk_buf_size;
>