linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/edid: Distribute switch variables for initialization

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Date:   Tue, 3 Mar 2020 09:21:26 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/edid: Distribute switch variables for initialization

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:39 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:22:29PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
> > cannot be automatically initialized with compiler instrumentation (as
> > they are not part of any execution flow). With GCC's proposed automatic
> > stack variable initialization feature, this triggers a warning (and they
> > don't get initialized). Clang's automatic stack variable initialization
> > (via CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL=y) doesn't throw a warning, but it also
> > doesn't initialize such variables[1]. Note that these warnings (or silent
> > skipping) happen before the dead-store elimination optimization phase,
> > so even when the automatic initializations are later elided in favor of
> > direct initializations, the warnings remain.
> >
> > To avoid these problems, move such variables into the "case" where
> > they're used or lift them up into the main function body.
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c: In function ‘drm_edid_to_eld’:
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c:4395:9: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
> >  4395 |     int sad_count;
> >       |         ^~~~~~~~~
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
> Ping. Can someone pick this up, please?

Whatever the reasons, but your original patch didn't make it through
to dri-devel. Can you pls resubmit?

Thanks, Daniel

>
> Thanks!
>
> -Kees
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c |    5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> > index 805fb004c8eb..2941b65b427f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> > @@ -4392,9 +4392,9 @@ static void drm_edid_to_eld(struct drm_connector *connector, struct edid *edid)
> >                       dbl = cea_db_payload_len(db);
> >
> >                       switch (cea_db_tag(db)) {
> > -                             int sad_count;
> > +                     case AUDIO_BLOCK: {
> >
> > -                     case AUDIO_BLOCK:
> > +                             int sad_count;
> >                               /* Audio Data Block, contains SADs */
> >                               sad_count = min(dbl / 3, 15 - total_sad_count);
> >                               if (sad_count >= 1)
> > @@ -4402,6 +4402,7 @@ static void drm_edid_to_eld(struct drm_connector *connector, struct edid *edid)
> >                                              &db[1], sad_count * 3);
> >                               total_sad_count += sad_count;
> >                               break;
> > +                     }
> >                       case SPEAKER_BLOCK:
> >                               /* Speaker Allocation Data Block */
> >                               if (dbl >= 1)
> >
>
> --
> Kees Cook



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