Re: drivers/cxl/pci.c:439:7: warning: Local variable 'rc' shadows outer variable [shadowVariable]

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Apr 03 2022 - 15:41:52 EST


Hi lkp/ktr,

On 4/2/22 04:26, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head: 88e6c0207623874922712e162e25d9dafd39661e
> commit: 523e594d9cc03db962c741ce02c8a58aab58a123 cxl/pci: Implement wait for media active
> date: 7 weeks ago
> compiler: alpha-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.2.0
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> cppcheck warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>>> drivers/cxl/pci.c:439:7: warning: Local variable 'rc' shadows outer variable [shadowVariable]
> int rc;
> ^
> drivers/cxl/pci.c:431:6: note: Shadowed declaration
> int rc, i;
> ^
> drivers/cxl/pci.c:439:7: note: Shadow variable
> int rc;
> ^
>
> cppcheck possible warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>, may not real problems)
>
>>> drivers/cxl/port.c:63:1: warning: There is an unknown macro here somewhere. Configuration is required. If __stringify is a macro then please configure it. [unknownMacro]
> MODULE_ALIAS_CXL(CXL_DEVICE_PORT);
> ^
> --

Can you provide a cppcheck config file and command line
for this, please?

My naive testing does not see any of these warnings --
although I can easily spot the problems in the source file.

thanks.
--
~Randy