linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: stmmac: Avoid one more sometimes uninitialized Clang warning

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Message-Id: <20190308040239.9400-1-natechancellor@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu,  7 Mar 2019 21:02:39 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Avoid one more sometimes uninitialized Clang warning

When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, Clang warns:

drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c:111:2: error: variable
'ns' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
[-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c:111:2: error: variable
'ns' is used uninitialized whenever '&&' condition is false
[-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]

Clang is concerned with the use of stmmac_do_void_callback (which
stmmac_get_systime wraps), as it may fail to initialize these values if
the if condition was ever false (meaning the callback doesn't exist).
It's not wrong because the callback is what initializes ns. While it's
unlikely that the callback is going to disappear at some point and make
that condition false, we can easily avoid this warning by zero
initializing the variable.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/384
Fixes: df103170854e ("net: stmmac: Avoid sometimes uninitialized Clang warnings")
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c
index 2293e21f789f..cc60b3fb0892 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ptp.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int stmmac_get_time(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, struct timespec64 *ts)
 	struct stmmac_priv *priv =
 	    container_of(ptp, struct stmmac_priv, ptp_clock_ops);
 	unsigned long flags;
-	u64 ns;
+	u64 ns = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->ptp_lock, flags);
 	stmmac_get_systime(priv, priv->ptpaddr, &ns);
-- 
2.21.0