linux-kernel - [PATCH] arm64: percpu: Initialize ret in the default case

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Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:44:59 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: percpu: Initialize ret in the default case

Clang warns that if the default case is taken, ret will be
uninitialized.

./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:196:2: warning: variable 'ret' is used
uninitialized whenever switch default is taken
[-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
        default:
        ^~~~~~~
./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:200:9: note: uninitialized use occurs
here
        return ret;
               ^~~
./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:157:19: note: initialize the variable
'ret' to silence this warning
        unsigned long ret, loop;
                         ^
                          = 0

This warning appears several times while building the erofs filesystem.
While it's not strictly wrong, the BUILD_BUG will prevent this from
becoming a true problem. Initialize ret to 0 in the default case right
before the BUILD_BUG to silence all of these warnings.

Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
index 9234013e759e..21a81b59a0cc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __percpu_##op(void *ptr,			\
 		: [val] "Ir" (val));					\
 		break;							\
 	default:							\
+		ret = 0;						\
 		BUILD_BUG();						\
 	}								\
 									\
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __percpu_read(void *ptr, int size)
 		ret = READ_ONCE(*(u64 *)ptr);
 		break;
 	default:
+		ret = 0;
 		BUILD_BUG();
 	}
 
@@ -194,6 +196,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __percpu_xchg(void *ptr, unsigned long val,
 		: [val] "r" (val));
 		break;
 	default:
+		ret = 0;
 		BUILD_BUG();
 	}
 
-- 
2.19.0