Re: [PATCH 2/5] libfdt: overlay: Check the value of the right variable

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On 4 March 2017 at 06:26, Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> overlay_update_local_node_references() saves the result of
> fdt_subnode_offset() into variable tree_child but checks for variable
> ret afterwards. As this does not make sense, check tree_child instead of
> ret.
>
> This bug has been found by compiling with clang. The compiler reported
> the following warning:
>
>     libfdt/fdt_overlay.c:275:7: error: variable 'ret' may be
>     uninitialized when used here
>           [-Werror,-Wconditional-uninitialized]
>                     if (ret == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
>                         ^~~
>     libfdt/fdt_overlay.c:210:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to
>     silence this
>           warning
>             int ret;
>                    ^
>                     = 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  libfdt/fdt_overlay.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This suggests we need a new test case.

>
> diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c b/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> index 56cb70ed4445..b2fb5d970ccc 100644
> --- a/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> +++ b/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int overlay_update_local_node_references(void *fdto,
>
>                 tree_child = fdt_subnode_offset(fdto, tree_node,
>                                                 fixup_child_name);
> -               if (ret == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
> +               if (tree_child == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
>                         return -FDT_ERR_BADOVERLAY;
>                 if (tree_child < 0)
>                         return tree_child;
> --
> 2.11.1
>
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