* [PATCH 6/7] tracing: Quiet gcc warning about maybe unused link variable
@ 2018-07-26 23:06 Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2018-07-26 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Linus Torvalds, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, stable,
kbuild test robot
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on
enable_trace_kprobe() failure") added an if statement that depends on another
if statement that gcc doesn't see will initialize the "link" variable and
gives the warning:
"warning: 'link' may be used uninitialized in this function"
It is really a false positive, but to quiet the warning, and also to make
sure that it never actually is used uninitialized, initialize the "link"
variable to NULL and add an if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link)) where the compiler
thinks it could be used uninitialized.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 27ace4513c43..6b71860f3998 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static struct trace_kprobe *find_trace_kprobe(const char *event,
static int
enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct trace_event_file *file)
{
- struct event_file_link *link;
+ struct event_file_link *link = NULL;
int ret = 0;
if (file) {
@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct trace_event_file *file)
if (ret) {
if (file) {
- list_del_rcu(&link->list);
+ /* Notice the if is true on not WARN() */
+ if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link))
+ list_del_rcu(&link->list);
kfree(link);
tk->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_TRACE;
} else {
--
2.17.1
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