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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:46:21 -0600
From:	Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, minyard@....org
CC:	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: avoid gcc warning

Thanks, queued for 3.20.

-corey

On 01/28/2015 09:00 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A new harmless warning has come up on ARM builds with gcc-4.9:
>
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c: In function 'smi_send.isra.11':
> include/linux/spinlock.h:372:95: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock->rlock, flags);
>                                                                                                ^
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1490:16: note: 'flags' was declared here
>   unsigned long flags;
>                 ^
>
> This could be worked around by initializing the 'flags' variable, but it
> seems better to rework the code to avoid this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Fixes: 7ea0ed2b5be81 ("ipmi: Make the message handler easier to use for SMI interfaces")
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> index 6b65fa4e0c55..fb0f8eacd208 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> @@ -1483,14 +1483,10 @@ static inline void format_lan_msg(struct ipmi_smi_msg   *smi_msg,
>  	smi_msg->msgid = msgid;
>  }
>  
> -static void smi_send(ipmi_smi_t intf, struct ipmi_smi_handlers *handlers,
> -		     struct ipmi_smi_msg *smi_msg, int priority)
> +static struct ipmi_smi_msg *smi_add_send_msg(ipmi_smi_t intf,
> +					     struct ipmi_smi_msg *smi_msg,
> +					     int priority)
>  {
> -	int run_to_completion = intf->run_to_completion;
> -	unsigned long flags;
> -
> -	if (!run_to_completion)
> -		spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->xmit_msgs_lock, flags);
>  	if (intf->curr_msg) {
>  		if (priority > 0)
>  			list_add_tail(&smi_msg->link, &intf->hp_xmit_msgs);
> @@ -1500,8 +1496,24 @@ static void smi_send(ipmi_smi_t intf, struct ipmi_smi_handlers *handlers,
>  	} else {
>  		intf->curr_msg = smi_msg;
>  	}
> -	if (!run_to_completion)
> +
> +	return smi_msg;
> +}
> +
> +
> +static void smi_send(ipmi_smi_t intf, struct ipmi_smi_handlers *handlers,
> +		     struct ipmi_smi_msg *smi_msg, int priority)
> +{
> +	int run_to_completion = intf->run_to_completion;
> +
> +	if (run_to_completion) {
> +		smi_msg = smi_add_send_msg(intf, smi_msg, priority);
> +	} else {
> +		unsigned long flags;
> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->xmit_msgs_lock, flags);
> +		smi_msg = smi_add_send_msg(intf, smi_msg, priority);
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->xmit_msgs_lock, flags);
> +	}
>  
>  	if (smi_msg)
>  		handlers->sender(intf->send_info, smi_msg);
>
>
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