Hi Eugeniu,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 3:15 PM Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:42:51AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +static bool isrange(const char *s)
> > +{
> > + size_t n = strlen(s);
>
> Cppcheck 1.40-18521-ge6d692d96058:
> drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c:69:11: style: Variable 'n' is assigned a value that is never used. [unreadVariable]
>
> Smatch v0.5.0-6150-gc1ed13e4ee7b:
> drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c:69 isrange() warn: unused return: n = strlen()
Correct, this is a remainder of code present temporarily during development.
Will drop.
(where are the days gcc itself warned about that?)
> > + aggr->lookups->dev_id = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.%d", DRV_NAME, id);
> > + if (!aggr->lookups) {
> > + res = -ENOMEM;
> > + goto remove_idr;
> > + }
>
> s/aggr->lookups/aggr->lookups->dev_id/ ?
Thanks, will fix.
> > +static int gpio_fwd_get_multiple(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned long *mask,
> > + unsigned long *bits)
> > +{
> > + struct gpiochip_fwd *fwd = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
> > + unsigned long *values, flags;
>
> gcc 9.2.1:
> warning: ‘flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>
> [..]
>
> > +static void gpio_fwd_set_multiple(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned long *mask,
> > + unsigned long *bits)
> > +{
> > + struct gpiochip_fwd *fwd = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
> > + unsigned long *values, flags;
>
> gcc 9.2.1, same as above:
> warning: ‘flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
So newer gcc is (again) no longer smart enough to notice the check is
the same for initializer and user...
> Should these be silenced like in 2bf593f101f3ca ("xilinx_uartps.c:
> suppress "may be used uninitialised" warning") ?
TBH, I'm not a big fan of silencing false positives.
But if people like to see flags preinitialized to zero, that can be done...
> I plan to do some runtime testing soon.
Thanks, looking forward to the results!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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