linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] lkdtm: fix false positive warning from -Wmaybe-uninitialized

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Date:	Fri,  5 Aug 2016 14:25:51 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] lkdtm: fix false positive warning from -Wmaybe-uninitialized

The variable in use here doesn't matter (it's just used to exercise taking
up stack space), but this changes its use to pass its address instead,
to avoid a compiler warning:

drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c:54:15: warning: 'bad_stack' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
index 5a3fd76eec27..5525a204db93 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static noinline void do_usercopy_stack(bool to_user, bool bad_frame)
 
 	/* This is a pointer to outside our current stack frame. */
 	if (bad_frame) {
-		bad_stack = do_usercopy_stack_callee((uintptr_t)bad_stack);
+		bad_stack = do_usercopy_stack_callee((uintptr_t)&bad_stack);
 	} else {
 		/* Put start address just inside stack. */
 		bad_stack = task_stack_page(current) + THREAD_SIZE;
-- 
2.7.4