drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c:588 make_resync_request() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'peer_device' (see line 587)

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 03:21:47 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: 1c8b86a3799f7e5be903c3f49fcdaee29fd385b5
commit: 0d11f3cf279c5ad20a41f29242f170ba3c02f2da drbd: Pass a peer device to the resync and online verify functions
config: x86_64-randconfig-161-20231003 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231011/202310111418.3EglIsGN-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0
reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231011/202310111418.3EglIsGN-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202310111418.3EglIsGN-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

smatch warnings:
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c:588 make_resync_request() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'peer_device' (see line 587)

vim +/peer_device +588 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c

0d11f3cf279c5a Christoph Böhmwalder 2023-03-30 585 static int make_resync_request(struct drbd_peer_device *const peer_device, int cancel)
b411b3637fa71f Philipp Reisner 2009-09-25 586 {
0d11f3cf279c5a Christoph Böhmwalder 2023-03-30 @587 struct drbd_device *const device = peer_device->device;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dereference

44a4d551846b8c Lars Ellenberg 2013-11-22 @588 struct drbd_connection *const connection = peer_device ? peer_device->connection : NULL;
^^^^^^^^^^^
Previously we assumed this could be NULL

b411b3637fa71f Philipp Reisner 2009-09-25 589 unsigned long bit;
b411b3637fa71f Philipp Reisner 2009-09-25 590 sector_t sector;
155bd9d1abd604 Christoph Hellwig 2020-09-25 591 const sector_t capacity = get_capacity(device->vdisk);
1816a2b47afae8 Lars Ellenberg 2010-11-11 592 int max_bio_size;
e65f440d474d7d Lars Ellenberg 2010-11-05 593 int number, rollback_i, size;
506afb6248af57 Lars Ellenberg 2014-01-31 594 int align, requeue = 0;

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