linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 093/140] dm bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:24:56 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 093/140] dm bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

commit 590347e4000356f55eb10b03ced2686bd74dab40 upstream.

gcc-6.3 and earlier show a new warning after a seemingly unrelated
change to the arm64 PAGE_KERNEL definition:

In file included from drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:14:0:
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c: In function 'alloc_buffer':
include/linux/sched/mm.h:182:56: warning: 'noio_flag' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO) | flags;
                                                        ^

The same warning happened earlier on linux-3.18 for MIPS and I did a
workaround for that, but now it's come back.

gcc-7 and newer are apparently smart enough to figure this out, and
other architectures don't show it, so the best I could come up with is
to rework the caller slightly in a way that makes it obvious enough to
all arm64 compilers what is happening here.

Fixes: 41acec624087 ("arm64: kpti: Make use of nG dependent on arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()")
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9692829/
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
[snitzer: moved declarations inside conditional, altered vmalloc return]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c |   16 ++++++----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -386,9 +386,6 @@ static void __cache_size_refresh(void)
 static void *alloc_buffer_data(struct dm_bufio_client *c, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			       enum data_mode *data_mode)
 {
-	unsigned noio_flag;
-	void *ptr;
-
 	if (c->block_size <= DM_BUFIO_BLOCK_SIZE_SLAB_LIMIT) {
 		*data_mode = DATA_MODE_SLAB;
 		return kmem_cache_alloc(DM_BUFIO_CACHE(c), gfp_mask);
@@ -412,16 +409,15 @@ static void *alloc_buffer_data(struct dm
 	 * all allocations done by this process (including pagetables) are done
 	 * as if GFP_NOIO was specified.
 	 */
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) {
+		unsigned noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+		void *ptr = __vmalloc(c->block_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL);
 
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
-		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
-
-	ptr = __vmalloc(c->block_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL);
-
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
 		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+		return ptr;
+	}
 
-	return ptr;
+	return __vmalloc(c->block_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL);
 }
 
 /*