As Dan pointed out, the rework I did makes it harder for smatch and other static checkers to figure out what is going on with the uninitialized pointers. By open-coding the call in create_udata(), we make it more readable for both humans and tools. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 12f727721eee ("IB/uverbs: clean up INIT_UDATA_BUF_OR_NULL usage") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types.c | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types.c index b095bce7f238..c3ee5d9b336d 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types.c @@ -227,27 +227,26 @@ static void create_udata(struct uverbs_attr_bundle *ctx, * to use uverbs_attr_bundle instead of ib_udata. * Assume attr == 0 is input and attr == 1 is output. */ - void __user *inbuf; - size_t inbuf_len = 0; - void __user *outbuf; - size_t outbuf_len = 0; const struct uverbs_attr *uhw_in = uverbs_attr_get(ctx, UVERBS_UHW_IN); const struct uverbs_attr *uhw_out = uverbs_attr_get(ctx, UVERBS_UHW_OUT); if (!IS_ERR(uhw_in)) { - inbuf = uhw_in->ptr_attr.ptr; - inbuf_len = uhw_in->ptr_attr.len; + udata->inbuf = uhw_in->ptr_attr.ptr; + udata->inlen = uhw_in->ptr_attr.len; + } else { + udata->inbuf = NULL; + udata->inlen = 0; } if (!IS_ERR(uhw_out)) { - outbuf = uhw_out->ptr_attr.ptr; - outbuf_len = uhw_out->ptr_attr.len; + udata->outbuf = uhw_out->ptr_attr.ptr; + udata->outlen = uhw_out->ptr_attr.len; + } else { + udata->outbuf = NULL; + udata->outlen = 0; } - - ib_uverbs_init_udata_buf_or_null(udata, inbuf, outbuf, inbuf_len, - outbuf_len); } static int uverbs_create_cq_handler(struct ib_device *ib_dev, -- 2.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html