linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix uninitialized-variable warning

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:04:51 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@....com>,
        Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@...ray.eu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix uninitialized-variable warning

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:42:08PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Fixes: mmtom ("init/Kconfig: enable -O3 for all arches")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index 667f18f465be..6f0991e8c5cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -825,14 +825,15 @@ int __nvme_submit_sync_cmd(struct request_queue *q, struct nvme_command *cmd,
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	req = nvme_alloc_request(q, cmd, flags, qid);
> -	if (IS_ERR(req))
> -		return PTR_ERR(req);
> +	ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(req);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		return ret;

This one is just gross.  I think we'll need to find some other fix
that doesn't obsfucate the code as much.

>  
>  	req->timeout = timeout ? timeout : ADMIN_TIMEOUT;
>  
>  	if (buffer && bufflen) {
>  		ret = blk_rq_map_kern(q, req, buffer, bufflen, GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (ret)
> +		if (ret < 0)

OTOH if this shuts up a compiler warning I'd be perfectly fine with it.