Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: fix false-positive -Wmaybe-unintialized warning

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 10-12-18 21:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When CONFIG_NO_AUTO_INLINE is set, we get a false-postive warning
> for the brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done() function, after gcc figures
> out that brcmf_fw_nvram_from_efi() might not set the 'data_len'
> variable, but fails to notice that it always returns NULL:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c: In function 'brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done':
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c:560:11: error: 'data_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Mark it 'inline' to force gcc to understand this.
> 
> Fixes: ce2e6db554fa ("brcmfmac: Add support for getting nvram contents from EFI variables")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks, patch looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
> index dad3c1c79038..14b948917a1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
> @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static u8 *brcmf_fw_nvram_from_efi(size_t *data_len_ret)
>   	return NULL;
>   }
>   #else
> -static u8 *brcmf_fw_nvram_from_efi(size_t *data_len) { return NULL; }
> +static inline u8 *brcmf_fw_nvram_from_efi(size_t *data_len) { return NULL; }
>   #endif
>   
>   static void brcmf_fw_free_request(struct brcmf_fw_request *req)
>