Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: avoid freeing unallocated dma memory

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 11:25:12 EST


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:25:03PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Clang -Wuninitialized notices that on is_qla40XX we never allocate
> any DMA memory in get_fw_boot_info() but attempt to free it anyway:
>
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5915:7: error: variable 'buf_dma' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
> [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (!(val & 0x07)) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5985:47: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> dma_free_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size, buf, buf_dma);
> ^~~~~~~
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5915:3: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
> if (!(val & 0x07)) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5885:20: note: initialize the variable 'buf_dma' to silence this warning
> dma_addr_t buf_dma;
> ^
> = 0
>
> Skip the call to dma_free_coherent() here.
>
> Fixes: 2a991c215978 ("[SCSI] qla4xxx: Boot from SAN support for open-iscsi")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This is what I initially had but I guess I cared too much about that
debug print firing properly :) I like this better personally.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> index 16a18d5d856f..daa884fa43f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> @@ -5928,7 +5928,7 @@ static int get_fw_boot_info(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, uint16_t ddb_index[])
> val = rd_nvram_byte(ha, sec_addr);
> if (val & BIT_7)
> ddb_index[1] = (val & 0x7f);
> -
> + goto exit_boot_info;
> } else if (is_qla80XX(ha)) {
> buf = dma_alloc_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size,
> &buf_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.20.0
>