On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 22:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > gcc points out an uninialized pointer dereference that could happen > if we ever get to recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma() or recv_ishtp_cl_msg() > with an empty &dev->read_list: > > drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c: In function > 'recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma': > drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c:1049:3: error: 'cl' may be > used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] > > The warning only appeared in very few randconfig builds, as the > spinlocks tend to prevent gcc from tracing the variables. I only > saw it in configurations that had neither SMP nor LOCKDEP enabled. > > As we can see, we only enter the case if 'complete_rb' is non-NULL, > and then 'cl' is known to point to complete_rb->cl. Adding another > initialization to the same pointer is harmless here and makes it > clear to the compiler that the behavior is well-defined. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c > b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c > index aad61328f282..78d393e616a4 100644 > --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c > +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c > @@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ void recv_ishtp_cl_msg(struct ishtp_device *dev, > } > > if (complete_rb) { > + cl = complete_rb->cl; > getnstimeofday(&cl->ts_rx); > ++cl->recv_msg_cnt_ipc; > ishtp_cl_read_complete(complete_rb); > @@ -1045,6 +1046,7 @@ void recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma(struct ishtp_device > *dev, void *msg, > } > > if (complete_rb) { > + cl = complete_rb->cl; > getnstimeofday(&cl->ts_rx); > ++cl->recv_msg_cnt_dma; > ishtp_cl_read_complete(complete_rb); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html