On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:17 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built
Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:17 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, Clang warns:
> >
> > drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5915:7: warning: variable 'buf_dma' is
> > used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
> > [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> >
> > Don't call dma_free_coherent when buf is NULL, meaning that we never
> > called dma_alloc_coherent and initialized buf_dma.
> >
> > Fixes: 2a991c215978 ("[SCSI] qla4xxx: Boot from SAN support for open-iscsi")
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/391
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> > index 16a18d5d856f..9f56dafc3cda 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> > @@ -5982,7 +5982,8 @@ static int get_fw_boot_info(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, uint16_t ddb_index[])
> > ddb_index[1]));
> >
> > exit_boot_info_free:
> > - dma_free_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size, buf, buf_dma);
> > + if (buf)
> > + dma_free_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size, buf, buf_dma);
>
> Same thoughts as: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/8/786
> WDYT?
Initializing the variable is definitely worse here, don't listen to
clang's bad suggestions ;-)
This was my fix, I'll send that as a proper patch as well:
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
@@ -5928,7 +5928,7 @@ static int get_fw_boot_info(struct scsi_qla_host
*ha, uint16_t ddb_index[])
val = rd_nvram_byte(ha, sec_addr);
if (val & BIT_7)
ddb_index[1] = (val & 0x7f);
-
+ goto exit_boot_info;
} else if (is_qla80XX(ha)) {
buf = dma_alloc_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size,
&buf_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
Arnd
