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Message-ID: <1a004693-5dd5-458c-b8ff-b9a978298122@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 11:43:24 +0800
From: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@...wei.com>
To: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>, <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: <tanghui20@...wei.com>, <zhangqiao22@...wei.com>,
<judy.chenhui@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: Fix uninitialized symbol 'ret'
Hi Matti,
It might be better but I am not pretty sure whether have to have both
gains and times, so I modified 'ret' in places where issues might arise,
rather than adding a restriction in iio_gts_sanity_check().
In the corner case, there is a restriction that both num_hwgain and
num_itime cannot be 0 simultaneously in the iio_gts_sanity_check().
However, in the gain_to_scaletables() , if num_itime is 1 and num_hwgain
is 0, the 'gain_bytes' becomes 0 and 'all_gains' is not null after the
'for' loop, which causes the subsequent 'while' or 'for' to become
ineffective, leading to an undefined 'ret' being returned in the 'free_out'.
Yours,
-- Zicheng
On 2024/10/31 15:13, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> Hi Zicheng,
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> On 31/10/2024 03:45, Zicheng Qu wrote:
>> Initialize the variable ret at the time of declaration to prevent it
>> from
>> being returned without a defined value. Fixes smatch warning:
>> drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c:256 gain_to_scaletables() error:
>> uninitialized symbol 'ret'.
>>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v6.6+
>> Fixes: 38416c28e168 ("iio: light: Add gain-time-scale helpers")
>> Signed-off-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
>> b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
>> index 59d7615c0f56..c5dc5b51693d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
>> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int iio_gts_gain_cmp(const void *a, const
>> void *b)
>> static int gain_to_scaletables(struct iio_gts *gts, int **gains,
>> int **scales)
>> {
>> - int ret, i, j, new_idx, time_idx;
>> + int i, j, new_idx, time_idx, ret = 0;
>> int *all_gains;
>> size_t gain_bytes;
>
> So, if I read it right, this handles a (corner) case where there is no
> times given. I am not sure how well such use has been considered
> because the point of GTS is helping out with cases where the gain and
> integration time both impact to scale.
>
> How do you see the benefits of the gts if there is no such shared
> impact to scale? Sure the gts could still provide the 'standard table
> format' to present the gains (or times), and conversions from the
> register values to gains (or times), and perhaps the available scale
> table(s) - but I suppose it also brings a lot of unused code and some
> initialization overhead. (I have a vague feeling this was discussed
> with Jonathan during the reviews).
>
> Reason I am asking these questions is that I wonder if the usage
> should be limited to cases where we have both gains and times? We
> could check this in the iio_gts_sanity_check(). (And, I am actually a
> bit surprized this check was not implemented).
>
> Well, initialization fixes a potential bug here and does not really
> cost much - so big thanks to you :)
>
> Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
>
> Yours,
> -- Matti Vaittinen
>
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