Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Make the scope_guard() clear of its scope

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024, Gergo Koteles wrote:

> On Tue, 2024-09-03 at 18:14 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Gergo Koteles wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2024-08-29 at 19:50 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > First of all, it's a bit counterintuitive to have something like
> > > > 
> > > > 	int err;
> > > > 	...
> > > > 	scoped_guard(...)
> > > > 		err = foo(...);
> > > > 	if (err)
> > > > 		return err;
> > > > 
> > > > Second, with a particular kernel configuration and compiler version in
> > > > one of such cases the objtool is not happy:
> > > > 
> > > >   ideapad-laptop.o: warning: objtool: .text.fan_mode_show: unexpected end of section
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not an expert on all this, but the theory is that compiler and
> > > > linker in this case can't understand that 'result' variable will be
> > > > always initialized as long as no error has been returned. Assigning
> > > > 'result' to a dummy value helps with this. Note, that fixing the
> > > > scoped_guard() scope (as per above) does not make issue gone.
> > > > 
> > > > That said, assign dummy value and make the scope_guard() clear of its scope.
> > > > For the sake of consistency do it in the entire file.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Interestingly, if I open a scope manually and use the plain guard, the
> > > warning disappears.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I also have, but I avoid that approach because in that case
> > the printing will be done inside the lock, widening the critical section for
> > no benefits.
> > 
> 
> This is intended to be an inner block scope within the function, it
> does not expand the critical section.
> 
> 
> > > 	...
> > > 	unsigned long result;
> > > 	int err;
> > > 
> > > 	{
> > > 		guard(mutex)(&priv->vpc_mutex);
> > > 		err = read_ec_data(priv->adev->handle, VPCCMD_R_FAN,
> > > &result);
> > > 		if (err)
> > > 			return err;
> > > 	}
> > > 	...
> > > 
> > > This looks a bit strange, but is probably easier for the compiler than
> > > the for loop of scoped_guard.
> > > 
> > > But I don't know how well this style fits into the kernel.

It's ugly enough that I'd prefer the initialization of results variable as 
done in Andy's patch.

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 i.