Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] HID: intel_ish-hid: fix potential uninitialized data usage

[Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 22:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc points out an uninialized pointer dereference that could happen
> if we ever get to recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma() or recv_ishtp_cl_msg()
> with an empty &dev->read_list:
In that case complete_rb should be NULL and it should not go to

if (complete_rb) {

shouldn't enter and cl is not dereferenced.

So not sure why is this warning.

Thanks,
Srinivas

> 
> drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c: In function
> 'recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma':
> drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c:1049:3: error: 'cl' may be
> used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The warning only appeared in very few randconfig builds, as the
> spinlocks tend to prevent gcc from tracing the variables. I only
> saw it in configurations that had neither SMP nor LOCKDEP enabled.
> 
> As we can see, we only enter the case if 'complete_rb' is non-NULL,
> and then 'cl' is known to point to complete_rb->cl. Adding another
> initialization to the same pointer is harmless here and makes it
> clear to the compiler that the behavior is well-defined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c
> b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c
> index aad61328f282..78d393e616a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/client.c
> @@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ void recv_ishtp_cl_msg(struct ishtp_device *dev,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (complete_rb) {
> +		cl = complete_rb->cl;
>  		getnstimeofday(&cl->ts_rx);
>  		++cl->recv_msg_cnt_ipc;
>  		ishtp_cl_read_complete(complete_rb);
> @@ -1045,6 +1046,7 @@ void recv_ishtp_cl_msg_dma(struct ishtp_device
> *dev, void *msg,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (complete_rb) {
> +		cl = complete_rb->cl;
>  		getnstimeofday(&cl->ts_rx);
>  		++cl->recv_msg_cnt_dma;
>  		ishtp_cl_read_complete(complete_rb);