linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 9/9] rcu: Suppress levelspread uninitialized messages

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Date:   Wed,  2 Oct 2019 18:47:28 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 9/9] rcu: Suppress levelspread uninitialized messages

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

New tools bring new warnings, and with v5.3 comes:

kernel/rcu/srcutree.c: warning: 'levelspread[<U aa0>]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]:  => 121:34

This commit suppresses this warning by initializing the full array
to INT_MIN, which will result in failures should any out-of-bounds
references appear.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcu.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index aeec70f..ab504fb 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static inline void rcu_init_levelspread(int *levelspread, const int *levelcnt)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	for (i = 0; i < RCU_NUM_LVLS; i++)
+		levelspread[i] = INT_MIN;
 	if (rcu_fanout_exact) {
 		levelspread[rcu_num_lvls - 1] = rcu_fanout_leaf;
 		for (i = rcu_num_lvls - 2; i >= 0; i--)
-- 
2.9.5