linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: prevent uninitialized variable warning in check

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Message-Id: <20170518173732.12185-5-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 19:37:32 +0200
From:   Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: prevent uninitialized variable warning in check_svme()

get_msr() of MSR_EFER is currently always going to succeed, but static
checker doesn't see that far.

Don't complicate stuff and just use 0 for the fallback -- it means that
the feature is not present.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index c25cfaf584e7..0816ab2e8adc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@ static int check_dr_write(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 
 static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 {
-	u64 efer;
+	u64 efer = 0;
 
 	ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer);
 
-- 
2.13.0