re: LoongArch: Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support

[Colin King (gmail)]

Hi,

Static analysis with cppcheck has found an issue in 
arch/loongarch/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c function hw_breakpoint_arch_parse 
with the following commit:

commit edffa33c7bb5a73e90c754c7a497162b77d7c55f
Author: Qing Zhang <zhangqing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Feb 25 15:52:57 2023 +0800

    LoongArch: Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support


/*
 * Validate the arch-specific HW Breakpoint register settings.
 */
int hw_breakpoint_arch_parse(struct perf_event *bp,
                             const struct perf_event_attr *attr,
                             struct arch_hw_breakpoint *hw)
{
        int ret;
        u64 alignment_mask, offset;

^^ alignment mask is not initialized

        /* Build the arch_hw_breakpoint. */
        ret = arch_build_bp_info(bp, attr, hw);
        if (ret)
                return ret;

        if (hw->ctrl.type != LOONGARCH_BREAKPOINT_EXECUTE)
                alignment_mask = 0x7;
^^ only on this if path is alignment_mask being assigned

        offset = hw->address & alignment_mask;
        hw->address &= ~alignment_mask;

^^ offset and hw->address being modified by potentially uninitialized 
alignment_mask

        hw->ctrl.len <<= offset;

        return 0;
}


Regards,

Colin