Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2020-08-03

Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: pvr2fb: initialize variables

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2020-07-20 19:27:46
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:19 PM [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

clang static analysis reports this repesentative error

pvr2fb.c:1049:2: warning: 1st function call argument
  is an uninitialized value [core.CallAndMessage]
        if (*cable_arg)
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Problem is that cable_arg depends on the input loop to
set the cable_arg[0].  If it does not, then some random
value from the stack is used.

A similar problem exists for output_arg.

So initialize cable_arg and output_arg.
Adding a zero-initialization is almost never the correct way to
deal with these warnings, so one has to be careful doing this.

I checked this file, and your patch is absolutely correct here. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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