Re: [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

[Jann Horn]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:04 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
> > cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches.
> > After this, future always-initialized stack variables will work
> > and not throw warnings like this:
> >
> > fs/fcntl.c: In function âsend_sigio_to_taskâ:
> > fs/fcntl.c:738:13: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
> >    siginfo_t si;
> >              ^~
>
> That's a pain, so this means we can't have any new variables in { }
> scope except for at the top of a function?

AFAICS this only applies to switch statements (because they jump to a
case and don't execute stuff at the start of the block), not blocks
after if/while/... .

> That's going to be a hard thing to keep from happening over time, as
> this is valid C :(