linux-kernel - Re: Hopefully, kmalloc() will always succeed, but if it doesn't then....

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Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:09:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...oo.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hopefully, kmalloc() will always succeed, but if it doesn't then....



--- Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> 
> $ make -C /erk/kernel/linux-2.6.19-rc2 M=$PWD
>   CC [M]  /dev/shm/test.o
> /dev/shm/test.c: In function âfuncâ:
> /dev/shm/test.c:4: warning: âbâ may be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> 

It would be nice if this warning can be seen in all the cases without doing anything extra. But
sometimes I do not see it.

I compiled sound/pci/mixart/mixart_hwdep.c - did "make modules".

It has the following code but I did not get any warnings.

static int mixart_enum_connectors(struct mixart_mgr *mgr)
{
        u32 k;
        int err;
        struct mixart_msg request;
        struct mixart_enum_connector_resp *connector;
        struct mixart_audio_info_req  *audio_info_req;
        struct mixart_audio_info_resp *audio_info;

        connector = kmalloc(sizeof(*connector), GFP_KERNEL);
        audio_info_req = kmalloc(sizeof(*audio_info_req), GFP_KERNEL);
        audio_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*audio_info), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (! connector || ! audio_info_req || ! audio_info) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto __error;
        }

root@...hyr-7 linux-2.6.19-rc1]# make modules
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  ...
  CC [M]  sound/pci/mixart/mixart.o
  CC [M]  sound/pci/mixart/mixart_core.o
  CC [M]  sound/pci/mixart/mixart_hwdep.o
  CC [M]  sound/pci/mixart/mixart_mixer.o
  LD [M]  sound/pci/mixart/snd-mixart.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 44 modules
  CC      sound/core/snd-hwdep.mod.o
  LD [M]  sound/core/snd-hwdep.ko
  ...
[root@...hyr-7 linux-2.6.19-rc1]#

Regards,
Amit



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