Hi Arnd,
On 11/22/2016 6:17 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc notices that calling iproc_pcie_setup_ib with ib->nr_regions==0
> would result in an uninitialized return value:
>
> drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c: In function 'iproc_pcie_setup_ib':
> drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c:894:6: error: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This can't really happen, but the correct behavior of the function
> is probably to return -EINVAL if it ever did.
>
> Fixes: 4213e15c364e ("PCI: iproc: Make outbound mapping code more generic")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> index 857ff5198317..0359569c8d78 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
> @@ -936,6 +936,7 @@ static int iproc_pcie_setup_ib(struct iproc_pcie *pcie,
>
> }
> }
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> err_ib:
> dev_err(dev, "unable to configure inbound mapping\n");
> dev_err(dev, "axi %pap, pci %pap, res size %pap\n",
>
This change is good, but in my opinion, a further improvement for
clarity would be to initialize 'ret' to -EINVAL in the beginning of this
function when 'ret' is declared. What do you think?
Thanks,
Ray
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