[PATCH v1 1/1] mtd: slram: insert break after errors in parsing the map

From: Mirsad Todorovac
Date: Thu Jul 11 2024 - 19:07:29 EST


The GCC 12.3.0 compiler on linux-next next-20240709 tree found the execution
path in which, due to lazy evaluation, devlength isn't initialised with the
parsed string:

289 while (map) {
290 devname = devstart = devlength = NULL;
291
292 if (!(devname = strsep(&map, ","))) {
293 E("slram: No devicename specified.\n");
294 break;
295 }
296 T("slram: devname = %s\n", devname);
297 if ((!map) || (!(devstart = strsep(&map, ",")))) {
298 E("slram: No devicestart specified.\n");
299 }
300 T("slram: devstart = %s\n", devstart);
→ 301 if ((!map) || (!(devlength = strsep(&map, ",")))) {
302 E("slram: No devicelength / -end specified.\n");
303 }
→ 304 T("slram: devlength = %s\n", devlength);
305 if (parse_cmdline(devname, devstart, devlength) != 0) {
306 return(-EINVAL);
307 }

Parsing should be finished after map == NULL, so a break is best inserted after
each E("slram: ... \n") error message.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c
index 28131a127d06..8297b366a066 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c
@@ -296,10 +296,12 @@ static int __init init_slram(void)
T("slram: devname = %s\n", devname);
if ((!map) || (!(devstart = strsep(&map, ",")))) {
E("slram: No devicestart specified.\n");
+ break;
}
T("slram: devstart = %s\n", devstart);
if ((!map) || (!(devlength = strsep(&map, ",")))) {
E("slram: No devicelength / -end specified.\n");
+ break;
}
T("slram: devlength = %s\n", devlength);
if (parse_cmdline(devname, devstart, devlength) != 0) {
--
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