On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:29:17PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:32 PM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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], just remove this variable since it was
actually unused:
drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c:232:34: warning: unused variable 'flags' [-Wunused-variable]
unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
^
[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)
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Thanks for the reviews!
Fixes ce1e518190ea ("ide: don't disable interrupts during kmap_atomic()")
I originally avoided adding Fixes tags because I didn't want these
changes backported into a -stable without -Wmaybe-uninitialized
disabled, but in these cases (variable removal), that actually does make
sense. Thanks!
-Kees
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Kees Cook