linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: cdev: avoid uninitialized variable dereference

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:04:14 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Bartosz Golaszewski" <brgl@...ev.pl>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
 "Kent Gibson" <warthog618@...il.com>,
 "Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
 "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: cdev: avoid uninitialized variable dereference

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, at 14:19, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>
>> The 'gc' variable is never set before it gets printed:
>>
>> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c:2802:11: error: variable 'gc' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
>>  2802 |         chip_dbg(gc, "added GPIO chardev (%d:%d)\n", MAJOR(devt), gdev->id);
>>       |                  ^~
>> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h:277:11: note: expanded from macro 'chip_dbg'
>>   277 |         dev_dbg(&gc->gpiodev->dev, "(%s): " fmt, gc->label, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>>       |                  ^~
>>
>> Use dev_dbg() directly.
>>
>> Fixes: 8574b5b47610 ("gpio: cdev: use correct pointer accessors with SRCU")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> ---
>
> I seem to have beat you to it[1] and my patch doesn't change the log
> message so I'll apply it instead of this one.

Ok, thanks. I thought about doing this, but could not
figure out which of the RCU primitives to use.

     Arnd