Re: [PATCH][next] RDMA/hns: Fix uninitialized variable bug

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On 3/27/20 21:15, liweihang wrote:
> On 2020/3/28 3:28, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> There is a potential execution path in which variable *ret* is returned
>> without being properly initialized, previously.
>>
>> Fix this by initializing variable *ret* to -ENODEV.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1491917 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>> Fixes: 2f49de21f3e9 ("RDMA/hns: Optimize mhop get flow for multi-hop addressing")
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c
>> index c96378718f88..3fd8100c2b56 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c
>> @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ static int set_mhop_hem(struct hns_roce_dev *hr_dev,
>>  {
>>  	struct ib_device *ibdev = &hr_dev->ib_dev;
>>  	int step_idx;
>> -	int ret;
>> +	int ret = -ENODEV;
>>  
>>  	if (index->inited & HEM_INDEX_L0) {
>>  		ret = hr_dev->hw->set_hem(hr_dev, table, obj, 0);
>>
> 
> Hi Gustavo,
> 

Hi Weihang,

> Thanks for your modification. But I check the code and I think "ret"
> should be initialized to 0, which means no need to set hem and it is
> not an error.
> 

Oh, I see. Thanks for the feedback. I'll send v2 shortly.

Thanks
--
Gustavo