Re: arch/riscv/kernel/module.c:639 process_accumulated_relocations() error: uninitialized symbol 'curr_type'.

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 03:00:56 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 11:27:02AM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > 8fd6c5142395a1 Charlie Jenkins 2023-11-01 638 }
> > 8fd6c5142395a1 Charlie Jenkins 2023-11-01 @639 reloc_handlers[curr_type].accumulate_handler(
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> > Can the list be empty? Uninitialized in that case.
>
> That's a tricky one, the list cannot be empty. Each bucket in the
> bucket_iter is guarunteed to have at least one rel_entry. I can probably
> resolve this by extracting this for loop into a do-while loop.

You can just ignore false positives. It's not really a fix to change it
to a do-while loop. I reviewed the do while code before reading this
email and I still wondered about empty lists, but just to hear that it's
not going to be empty is enough. Just the email was sufficient.

regards,
dan carpenter