Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 7 authors, 2020-07-15

Re: [PATCH v2 09/16] clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage

From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-06-22 09:03:56
Also in: linux-block, linux-clk, linux-ide, linux-mm, linux-spi, linux-wireless, lkml, netdev

Quoting Kees Cook (2020-06-19 20:30:00)
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g.
"unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either
simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. As a precursor
to removing[2] this[3] macro[4], initialize "i" to zero. The compiler
warning was not a false positive, since clk_pll_set_rate()'s call to
clk_pll_round_rate_index() will always fail (since "prate" is NULL), so
"i" was never being initialized.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ (local)

Fixes: 7d4998f71b29 ("clk: SPEAr: Vco-pll: Fix compilation warning")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
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Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
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