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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.3 45/87] powerpc/futex: Fix warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-09-24 16:43:48
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

From: Christophe Leroy <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 38a0d0cdb46d3f91534e5b9839ec2d67be14c59d ]

We see warnings such as:
  kernel/futex.c: In function 'do_futex':
  kernel/futex.c:1676:17: warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     return oldval == cmparg;
                   ^
  kernel/futex.c:1651:6: note: 'oldval' was declared here
    int oldval, ret;
        ^

This is because arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() only sets *oval if ret
is 0 and GCC doesn't see that it will only use it when ret is 0.

Anyway, the non-zero ret path is an error path that won't suffer from
setting *oval, and as *oval is a local var in futex_atomic_op_inuser()
it will have no impact.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
[mpe: reword change log slightly]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86b72f0c134367b214910b27b9a6dd3321af93bb.1565774657.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
index 3a6aa57b9d901..eea28ca679dbb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ static inline int arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, int oparg, int *oval,
 
 	pagefault_enable();
 
-	if (!ret)
-		*oval = oldval;
+	*oval = oldval;
 
 	prevent_write_to_user(uaddr, sizeof(*uaddr));
 	return ret;
-- 
2.20.1
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