linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]Silancing a false positive: "may be used uninitialized"

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Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:56:44 +1100
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Marin Mitov <mitov@...p.bas.bg>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Silancing a false positive: "may be used uninitialized"

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:03:27AM +0200, Marin Mitov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Silancing a false positive:
> warning: 'width' may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c

Is it guaranteed that the switch will always see a value covered by the
four cases it has?  If not width would be used without having been initialised.

Perhaps adding

		default:
			BUG();

would be worthwhile?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@...p.bas.bg>
> ==========================================================================
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c	2009-12-20 07:43:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c	2009-12-20 07:45:49.000000000 +0200
> @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
>  	const int rates[] = { 60, 85, 75, 60, 50 };
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> -		int width, height;
> +		int uninitialized_var(width), height;
>  		cvt = &(timing->data.other_data.data.cvt[i]);
>  
>  		height = (cvt->code[0] + ((cvt->code[1] & 0xf0) << 8) + 1) * 2;
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