linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial/8250: fix uninitialized warnings

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:47:44 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/8250: fix uninitialized warnings

> hlist_for_each() can execute that loop zero times, in which case
> serial_unlink_irq_chain will dereference an uninitialised variable.
> 
> Presumably the list shouldn't be empty at this stage, but this
> is not particularly robust behaviour if that should happen..

And the only cases that can trip are the more important BUG_ON() checks.
You could remove the BUG_ON() calls and make it less robust but that
seems slightly well silly to me ?

Alan
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