linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: fix theoretical uninitialized variable access

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:33:58 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: fix theoretical uninitialized variable
 access

Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc warns about a  way that it could use an uninitialized variable:
> 
> drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c: In function 'sunxi_pinctrl_init':
> drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c:1191:8: error: 'best_div' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This cannot really happen except if 'freq' is UINT_MAX and 'clock' is
> zero, and both of these are forbidden. To shut up the warning anyway,
> this changes the logic to initialize the return code to the first
> divider value before looking at the others.
> 
> Fixes: 7c926492d38a ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for interrupt debouncing")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks for that patch.

Just out of curiosity, which gcc gives those warnings? I have 6.2 and
it didn't output anything..

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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