[PATCH v2] cw1200: fix bogus maybe-uninitialized warning

Subsystems: cw1200 wlan driver, the rest

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-11-17 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH v2] cw1200: fix bogus maybe-uninitialized warning

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2016-10-25 20:21:49

On x86, the cw1200 driver produces a rather silly warning about the
possible use of the 'ret' variable without an initialization
presumably after being confused by the architecture specific definition
of WARN_ON:

drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c: In function ‘wsm_handle_rx’:
drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c:1457:9: error: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

We have already checked that 'count' is larger than 0 here, so
we know that 'ret' is initialized. Changing the 'for' loop
into do/while also makes this clear to the compiler.

Suggested-by: David Laight <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

v2: rewrite based on David Laight's suggestion, the first version
    was completely wrong.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
index 680d60eabc75..ed93bf3474ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c
@@ -379,7 +379,6 @@ static int wsm_multi_tx_confirm(struct cw1200_common *priv,
 {
 	int ret;
 	int count;
-	int i;
 
 	count = WSM_GET32(buf);
 	if (WARN_ON(count <= 0))
@@ -395,11 +394,10 @@ static int wsm_multi_tx_confirm(struct cw1200_common *priv,
 	}
 
 	cw1200_debug_txed_multi(priv, count);
-	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+	do {
 		ret = wsm_tx_confirm(priv, buf, link_id);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
+	} while (!ret && --count);
+
 	return ret;
 
 underflow:
-- 
2.9.0

Re: [v2] cw1200: fix bogus maybe-uninitialized warning

From: Kalle Valo <hidden>
Date: 2016-11-17 06:48:23

Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:
On x86, the cw1200 driver produces a rather silly warning about the
possible use of the 'ret' variable without an initialization
presumably after being confused by the architecture specific definition
of WARN_ON:

drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c: In function ‘wsm_handle_rx’:
drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.c:1457:9: error: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

We have already checked that 'count' is larger than 0 here, so
we know that 'ret' is initialized. Changing the 'for' loop
into do/while also makes this clear to the compiler.

Suggested-by: David Laight <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

7fc1503c906f cw1200: fix bogus maybe-uninitialized warning

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9395413/

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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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