linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] direct-io: squelch maybe-uninitialized warning in do_direct

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:11:20 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <openosd@...il.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	pramod.gurav.etc@...il.com, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@...aro.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] direct-io: squelch maybe-uninitialized warning in do_direct_IO()

From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>

The following warnings:

  fs/direct-io.c: In function ‘__blockdev_direct_IO’:
  fs/direct-io.c:1011:12: warning: ‘to’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  fs/direct-io.c:913:16: note: ‘to’ was declared here
  fs/direct-io.c:1011:12: warning: ‘from’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  fs/direct-io.c:913:10: note: ‘from’ was declared here

are false positive because dio_get_page() either fails, or sets both
'from' and 'to'.

Maybe it's better to move initializing "to" and "from" out of
dio_get_page(). That _might_ make it easier for both the the reader and
the compiler to understand what's going on. Something like this:

Christoph Hellwig said ...
The fix of moving the code definitively looks nicer, while I think
uninitialized_var is horrible wart that won't get anywhere near my code.

Boaz Harrosh: I agree with Christoph and Paul

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
---
 fs/direct-io.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 98040ba..194d0d1 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -198,9 +198,8 @@ static inline int dio_refill_pages(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio)
  * L1 cache.
  */
 static inline struct page *dio_get_page(struct dio *dio,
-		struct dio_submit *sdio, size_t *from, size_t *to)
+					struct dio_submit *sdio)
 {
-	int n;
 	if (dio_pages_present(sdio) == 0) {
 		int ret;
 
@@ -209,10 +208,7 @@ static inline struct page *dio_get_page(struct dio *dio,
 			return ERR_PTR(ret);
 		BUG_ON(dio_pages_present(sdio) == 0);
 	}
-	n = sdio->head++;
-	*from = n ? 0 : sdio->from;
-	*to = (n == sdio->tail - 1) ? sdio->to : PAGE_SIZE;
-	return dio->pages[n];
+	return dio->pages[sdio->head];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -911,11 +907,15 @@ static int do_direct_IO(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio,
 	while (sdio->block_in_file < sdio->final_block_in_request) {
 		struct page *page;
 		size_t from, to;
-		page = dio_get_page(dio, sdio, &from, &to);
+
+		page = dio_get_page(dio, sdio);
 		if (IS_ERR(page)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(page);
 			goto out;
 		}
+		from = sdio->head ? 0 : sdio->from;
+		to = (sdio->head == sdio->tail - 1) ? sdio->to : PAGE_SIZE;
+		sdio->head++;
 
 		while (from < to) {
 			unsigned this_chunk_bytes;	/* # of bytes mapped */
-- 
1.9.3

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