From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>,
Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>,
Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net-next] net/mlx5e: avoid uninitialized variable use
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:14:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190710171413.GB80585@archlinux-threadripper> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190710130638.1846846-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> clang points to a variable being used in an unexpected
> code path:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c:251:2: warning: variable 'rec_seq_sz' is used uninitialized whenever switch default is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> default:
> ^~~~~~~
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c:255:46: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> skip_static_post = !memcmp(rec_seq, &rn_be, rec_seq_sz);
> ^~~~~~~~~~
>
> From looking at the function logic, it seems that there is no
> sensible way to continue here, so just return early and hope
> for the best.
>
> Fixes: d2ead1f360e8 ("net/mlx5e: Add kTLS TX HW offload support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c
> index 3f5f4317a22b..5c08891806f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_tx.c
> @@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ tx_post_resync_params(struct mlx5e_txqsq *sq,
> }
> default:
> WARN_ON(1);
> + return;
> }
>
> skip_static_post = !memcmp(rec_seq, &rn_be, rec_seq_sz);
> --
> 2.20.0
>
Looks like my identical patch got picked up in net-next:
https://git.kernel.org/davem/net-next/c/1ff2f0fa450ea4e4f87793d9ed513098ec6e12be
Good to know the fix was the same.
Cheers,
Nathan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 13:06 [PATCH] [net-next] net/mlx5e: avoid uninitialized variable use Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-10 14:22 ` Tariq Toukan
2019-07-10 17:14 ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
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