On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 11:34 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:27:24PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:28:37PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Clang warns:
> > >
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:6: warning:
> > > variable
> > > 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> > > [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> > > if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1303:9: note:
> > > uninitialized use occurs here
> > > return err;
> > > ^~~
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:2: note:
> > > remove the
> > > 'if' if its condition is always false
> > > if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1259:9: note:
> > > initialize
> > > the variable 'err' to silence this warning
> > > int err;
> > > ^
> > > = 0
> > > 1 warning generated.
> > >
> > > The check of returned value of debugfs_create_dir() is wrong
> > > because
> > > by the design debugfs failures should never fail the driver and
> > > the
> > > check itself was wrong too. The kernel compiled without
> > > CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> > > will return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) and not NULL as expected.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 11f3b84d7068 ("net/mlx5: Split mdev init and pci init")
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1042
> > > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks! That's what I figured it should be.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > ---
> > > Original discussion:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200530055447.1028004-1-natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 5 -----
> > > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > index df46b1fce3a7..110e8d277d15 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > @@ -1275,11 +1275,6 @@ static int mlx5_mdev_init(struct
> > > mlx5_core_dev *dev, int profile_idx)
> > >
> > > priv->dbg_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev->device),
> > > mlx5_debugfs_root);
> > > - if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > - dev_err(dev->device, "mlx5_core: error, Cannot create
> > > debugfs dir, aborting\n");
> > > - goto err_dbg_root;
>
> Actually, this removes the only use of err_dbg_root, so that should
> be
> removed at the same time.
>
Fixed this up and applied to net-next-mlx5,
Thanks!
