Hello Tariq Toukan, The patch 0ec13877ce95: "net/mlx5e: Gather all XDP pre-requisite checks in a single function" from Mar 12, 2018, leads to the following Smatch warning: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c:4284 mlx5e_xdp_set() error: uninitialized symbol 'err'. drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c 4214 static int mlx5e_xdp_set(struct net_device *netdev, struct bpf_prog *prog) 4215 { 4216 struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev); 4217 struct bpf_prog *old_prog; 4218 bool reset, was_opened; 4219 int err; ^^^^^^^ I always encourage people to remove unneeded initializers so that GCC can detect uninitialized variables, but it turns out that GCC misses a bunch of bugs? 4220 int i; 4221 4222 mutex_lock(&priv->state_lock); 4223 4224 if (prog) { 4225 err = mlx5e_xdp_allowed(priv, prog); 4226 if (err) 4227 goto unlock; 4228 } 4229 4230 was_opened = test_bit(MLX5E_STATE_OPENED, &priv->state); 4231 /* no need for full reset when exchanging programs */ 4232 reset = (!priv->channels.params.xdp_prog || !prog); 4233 4234 if (was_opened && reset) 4235 mlx5e_close_locked(netdev); 4236 if (was_opened && !reset) { 4237 /* num_channels is invariant here, so we can take the 4238 * batched reference right upfront. 4239 */ 4240 prog = bpf_prog_add(prog, priv->channels.num); 4241 if (IS_ERR(prog)) { 4242 err = PTR_ERR(prog); 4243 goto unlock; 4244 } 4245 } 4246 4247 /* exchange programs, extra prog reference we got from caller 4248 * as long as we don't fail from this point onwards. 4249 */ 4250 old_prog = xchg(&priv->channels.params.xdp_prog, prog); 4251 if (old_prog) 4252 bpf_prog_put(old_prog); 4253 4254 if (reset) /* change RQ type according to priv->xdp_prog */ 4255 mlx5e_set_rq_type(priv->mdev, &priv->channels.params); 4256 4257 if (was_opened && reset) 4258 mlx5e_open_locked(netdev); 4259 4260 if (!test_bit(MLX5E_STATE_OPENED, &priv->state) || reset) 4261 goto unlock; ^^^^^^^^^^^ In the original code this was a success path. 4262 4263 /* exchanging programs w/o reset, we update ref counts on behalf 4264 * of the channels RQs here. 4265 */ 4266 for (i = 0; i < priv->channels.num; i++) { 4267 struct mlx5e_channel *c = priv->channels.c[i]; 4268 4269 clear_bit(MLX5E_RQ_STATE_ENABLED, &c->rq.state); 4270 napi_synchronize(&c->napi); 4271 /* prevent mlx5e_poll_rx_cq from accessing rq->xdp_prog */ 4272 4273 old_prog = xchg(&c->rq.xdp_prog, prog); 4274 4275 set_bit(MLX5E_RQ_STATE_ENABLED, &c->rq.state); 4276 /* napi_schedule in case we have missed anything */ 4277 napi_schedule(&c->napi); 4278 4279 if (old_prog) 4280 bpf_prog_put(old_prog); 4281 } 4282 4283 unlock: 4284 mutex_unlock(&priv->state_lock); 4285 return err; ^^^^^^^^^^ 4286 } regards, dan carpenter -- 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