Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: rpaphp: Avoid a sometimes-uninitialized warning

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Sat Aug 10 2019 - 06:20:33 EST


On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 22:11:58 UTC, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, clang warns:
>
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:243:14: warning: variable 'fndit' is
> used uninitialized whenever 'for' loop exits because its condition is
> false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> for (j = 0; j < entries; j++) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:256:6: note: uninitialized use occurs
> here
> if (fndit)
> ^~~~~
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:243:14: note: remove the condition if
> it is always true
> for (j = 0; j < entries; j++) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c:233:14: note: initialize the variable
> 'fndit' to silence this warning
> int j, fndit;
> ^
> = 0
>
> fndit is only used to gate a sprintf call, which can be moved into the
> loop to simplify the code and eliminate the local variable, which will
> fix this warning.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/504
> Fixes: 2fcf3ae508c2 ("hotplug/drc-info: Add code to search ibm,drc-info property")
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0df3e42167caaf9f8c7b64de3da40a459979afe8

cheers