All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH][Resend] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090513091643.8216.46699.sendpatchset@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Hi Avi/Yaniv,

With gcc --version 4.4.1 20090429 (prerelease)

I get the following warning:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c: In function ‘vmx_intr_assist’:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:3233: warning: ‘max_irr’ may be used uninitialized in this function
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:3233: note: ‘max_irr’ was declared here

Investigation found that:

3231 static void update_tpr_threshold(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
3232 {
3233         int max_irr, tpr;
3234 
3235         if (!vm_need_tpr_shadow(vcpu->kvm))
3236                 return;
3237 
3238         if (!kvm_lapic_enabled(vcpu) ||
3239             ((max_irr = kvm_lapic_find_highest_irr(vcpu)) == -1)) {

	(max_irr = kvm_lapic_find_highest_irr(vcpu)) == -1

may not get a chance to evaluate if:

	!kvm_lapic_enabled(vcpu)

evaluates to true (as the expressions are Or-ed).

3240                 vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, 0);
3241                 return;
3242         }
3243 
3244         tpr = (kvm_lapic_get_cr8(vcpu) & 0x0f) << 4;
3245         vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, (max_irr > tpr) ? tpr >> 4 : max_irr >> 4);

Using (max_irr > tpr) and max_irr >> 4, without max_irr getting initialized can
cause trouble.

3246 }

I would like to propose a small fix for this by interchanging the
operands in ||, so that max_irr is initialized in all instances,
and, the warning fades away, without compromising the criteria of
conditional evaluation inside if().

Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Yaniv Kamay  <yaniv@qumranet.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH][Resend] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
---

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c	2009-05-12 15:28:42.000000000 +0530
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c	2009-05-12 15:51:02.000000000 +0530
@@ -3235,8 +3235,8 @@ static void update_tpr_threshold(struct 
 	if (!vm_need_tpr_shadow(vcpu->kvm))
 		return;
 
-	if (!kvm_lapic_enabled(vcpu) ||
-	    ((max_irr = kvm_lapic_find_highest_irr(vcpu)) == -1)) {
+	if (((max_irr = kvm_lapic_find_highest_irr(vcpu)) == -1) ||
+	     !kvm_lapic_enabled(vcpu)) {
 		vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, 0);
 		return;
 	}

---
Regards--
Subrata


             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-13  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-13  9:16 Subrata Modak [this message]
2009-05-13  9:41 ` [PATCH][Resend] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c Avi Kivity

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20090513091643.8216.46699.sendpatchset@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com \
    --to=subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=avi@qumranet.com \
    --cc=balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=yaniv@qumranet.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.