Re: [PATCH] profile: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Oct 12 2023 - 02:27:51 EST


Hi Li,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Li-zeming/profile-Remove-unnecessary-0-values-from-err/20230919-094202
base: linus/master
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919014126.8168-1-zeming%40nfschina.com
patch subject: [PATCH] profile: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err
config: i386-randconfig-141-20230921 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231012/202310120931.henXte1M-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231012/202310120931.henXte1M-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/202310120931.henXte1M-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

smatch warnings:
kernel/profile.c:491 create_proc_profile() error: uninitialized symbol 'err'.

vim +/err +491 kernel/profile.c

^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 467
1997ab2b2a8d46 Li zeming 2023-09-19 468 int err;
^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 469
^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 470 if (!prof_on)
^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 471 return 0;
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 472 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 473 err = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_PROFILE_PREPARE, "PROFILE_PREPARE",
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 474 profile_prepare_cpu, profile_dead_cpu);
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 475 if (err)
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 476 return err;
c270a817196a93 Srivatsa S. Bhat 2014-03-11 477
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 478 err = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "AP_PROFILE_ONLINE",
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 479 profile_online_cpu, NULL);
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 480 if (err < 0)
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 481 goto err_state_prep;
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 482 online_state = err;
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 483 err = 0;
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 484 #endif

err is uninitialized on single processor systems.

c33fff0afbef4f Denis V. Lunev 2008-04-29 485 entry = proc_create("profile", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
97a32539b9568b Alexey Dobriyan 2020-02-03 486 NULL, &profile_proc_ops);
1ad82fd547c716 Paolo Ciarrocchi 2008-01-25 487 if (!entry)
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 488 goto err_state_onl;
271a15eabe0945 David Howells 2013-04-12 489 proc_set_size(entry, (1 + prof_len) * sizeof(atomic_t));
c270a817196a93 Srivatsa S. Bhat 2014-03-11 490
e722d8daafb974 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-07-13 @491 return err;

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