Re: [pci:next 73/77] arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:283 setup_efi_pci() error: potentially derefencing uninitialized 'pci_handle'.

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Just a reminder that the EFI ROM patches are not in my next branch
yet.  IIRC, there is a section mismatch issue as well as the one
below.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:19:39PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> FYI, there are new smatch warnings show up in
>>
>> tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git next
>> head:   97ac9d1f363964dec7fbb20cf3c2e88336b4d801
>> commit: 66f2adcdadea18a583d4f7cbd773847d635731a3 [73/77] EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR
>>
>> All smatch warnings:
>>
>> + arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:283 setup_efi_pci() error: potentially derefencing uninitialized 'pci_handle'.
>
> These warnings probably have too high of a false positive rate to be
> worth emailing about.  Although this one looks like a real bug.  We
> should be passing "&pci_handle" to efi_call_phys5 instead of
> "pci_handle".
>
> I'm not sure why GCC doesn't warn about these.  Anyway, it's because
> GCC didn't warn about unitialized variables that I added it to
> Smatch.
>
>> + arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:303 setup_efi_pci() warn: add some parenthesis here?
>> + arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:303 setup_efi_pci() warn: maybe use && instead of &
>
> These are real but they duplicate Sparse warnings.  :/
>
>>   arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:728 handle_ramdisks() error: potentially derefencing uninitialized 'fh'.
>>
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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