Re: [PATCH] LLVMLinux: Remove warning about returning an uninitialized variable

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On 03/31/14 13:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 03/21/2014 11:38 PM, behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fix uninitialized return code in default case in cmpxchg-local.h

This patch fixes the code to prevent an uninitialized return value that is detected
when compiling with clang. The bug produces numerous warnings when compiling the
Linux kernel with clang.

Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
index d8d4c89..4c41bb8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg_local_generic(volatile void *ptr,
  		break;
  	default:
  		wrong_size_cmpxchg(ptr);
+		prev = 0;
  	}
  	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
  	return prev;

Shouldn't this be a build time assert (__compiletime_error())?
I changed it to a __noreturn on wrong_size_cmpxchg thanks to James Bottomley.

Which would be better?

Behan

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Behan Webster
behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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