linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 09/47] powerpc/futex: Fix warning: oldval may be used uninitialized in this function

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Date:   Sun,  6 Oct 2019 19:20:56 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 09/47] powerpc/futex: Fix warning: oldval may be used uninitialized in this function

From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>

[ Upstream commit 38a0d0cdb46d3f91534e5b9839ec2d67be14c59d ]

We see warnings such as:
  kernel/futex.c: In function 'do_futex':
  kernel/futex.c:1676:17: warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     return oldval == cmparg;
                   ^
  kernel/futex.c:1651:6: note: 'oldval' was declared here
    int oldval, ret;
        ^

This is because arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() only sets *oval if ret
is 0 and GCC doesn't see that it will only use it when ret is 0.

Anyway, the non-zero ret path is an error path that won't suffer from
setting *oval, and as *oval is a local var in futex_atomic_op_inuser()
it will have no impact.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
[mpe: reword change log slightly]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86b72f0c134367b214910b27b9a6dd3321af93bb.1565774657.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
index f4c7467f74655..b73ab8a7ebc3f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ static inline int arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, int oparg, int *oval,
 
 	pagefault_enable();
 
-	if (!ret)
-		*oval = oldval;
+	*oval = oldval;
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.20.1