Re: [PATCH] [BUGREPORT] RDMA/bnxt_re: avoid unintialized variable use

[Selvin Xavier]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:35 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The newly added opcode variable is not initialized anywhere:
>
> drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c:322:18: error: variable 'opcode' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
>         crsqe->opcode = opcode;

This is already fixed and merged
https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ad1e44be2b560986da6fdc6b68da606413e9026.1686644105.git.leonro@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks

>
> Not sure what the intention was here, but this is clearly pointless, so
> instead use 0 in place of the variable.
>
> Fixes: bcfee4ce3e013 ("RDMA/bnxt_re: remove redundant cmdq_bitmap")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is likely not the correct fix, so treat this as a bug report,
> the patch is what I applied as a temporary workaround in my randconfig
> tree.
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c
> index bb5aebafe1622..8d349d6a633fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c
> @@ -285,7 +285,6 @@ static int __send_message(struct bnxt_qplib_rcfw *rcfw,
>         struct pci_dev *pdev;
>         unsigned long flags;
>         u16 cookie;
> -       u8 opcode;
>         u8 *preq;
>
>         cmdq = &rcfw->cmdq;
> @@ -319,7 +318,7 @@ static int __send_message(struct bnxt_qplib_rcfw *rcfw,
>         crsqe->is_internal_cmd = false;
>         crsqe->is_waiter_alive = true;
>         crsqe->is_in_used = true;
> -       crsqe->opcode = opcode;
> +       crsqe->opcode = 0;
>
>         crsqe->req_size = __get_cmdq_base_cmd_size(msg->req, msg->req_sz);
>         if (__get_cmdq_base_resp_size(msg->req, msg->req_sz) && msg->sb) {
> --
> 2.39.2
>

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