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Message-ID: <ZxlrAiA2t00YMjRz@x1>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:30:42 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc: Eder Zulian <ezulian@...hat.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
	andrii@...nel.org, martin.lau@...ux.dev, eddyz87@...il.com,
	song@...nel.org, yonghong.song@...ux.dev, john.fastabend@...il.com,
	kpsingh@...nel.org, sdf@...ichev.me, haoluo@...gle.com,
	jolsa@...nel.org, acme@...hat.com, vmalik@...hat.com,
	williams@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] libsubcmd: Silence compiler warning

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 04:18:15PM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM Eder Zulian <ezulian@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Initialize the pointer 'o' in options__order to NULL to prevent a
> > compiler warning/error which is observed when compiling with the '-Og'
> > option, but is not emitted by the compiler with the current default
> > compilation options.
> >
> > For example, when compiling libsubcmd with
> >
> >  $ make "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Og" -C tools/lib/subcmd/ clean all
> >
> > Clang version 17.0.6 and GCC 13.3.1 fail to compile parse-options.c due
> > to following error:
> >
> >   parse-options.c: In function ‘options__order’:
> >   parse-options.c:832:9: error: ‘o’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> >     832 |         memcpy(&ordered[nr_opts], o, sizeof(*o));
> >         |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >   parse-options.c:810:30: note: ‘o’ was declared here
> >     810 |         const struct option *o, *p = opts;
> >         |                              ^
> >   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eder Zulian <ezulian@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> 
> First two patches look good, we can take them through bpf-next. What
> do we do with this one? Arnaldo, would you like us to take it through
> bpf-next as well (if yes, please give your ack), or you'd like to take

Yes, please take it thru bpf-next

Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

- Arnaldo

> it through your tree?
 
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
> > index eb896d30545b..555d617c1f50 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
> > @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static int option__cmp(const void *va, const void *vb)
> >  static struct option *options__order(const struct option *opts)
> >  {
> >         int nr_opts = 0, nr_group = 0, nr_parent = 0, len;
> > -       const struct option *o, *p = opts;
> > +       const struct option *o = NULL, *p = opts;
> >         struct option *opt, *ordered = NULL, *group;
> >
> >         /* flatten the options that have parents */
> > --
> > 2.46.2

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