Re: [PATCH v2] IB/rdmavt: Fix variable shadowing issue in rvt_create_cq

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 13:02:22 EST


On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 04:05:53PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> clang warns:
>
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:260:7: warning: variable 'err' is used
> uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (err)
> ^~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:310:9: note: uninitialized use occurs
> here
> return err;
> ^~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:260:3: note: remove the 'if' if its
> condition is always false
> if (err)
> ^~~~~~~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:253:7: warning: variable 'err' is used
> uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (!cq->ip) {
> ^~~~~~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:310:9: note: uninitialized use occurs
> here
> return err;
> ^~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:253:3: note: remove the 'if' if its
> condition is always false
> if (!cq->ip) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c:211:9: note: initialize the variable
> 'err' to silence this warning
> int err;
> ^
> = 0
> 2 warnings generated.
>
> The function scoped err variable is uninitialized when the flow jumps
> into the if statement. The if scoped err variable shadows the function
> scoped err variable, preventing the err assignments within the if
> statement to be reflected at the function level, which will cause
> uninitialized use when the goto statements are taken.
>
> Just remove the if scoped err declaration so that there is only one
> copy of the err variable for this function.
>
> Fixes: 239b0e52d8aa ("IB/hfi1: Move rvt_cq_wc struct into uapi directory")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/594
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-next with Mike's ack

Thanks,
Jason