Re: [PATCH net-next 04/13] net: enetc: add MAC filter for i.MX95 ENETC PF

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri,  3 Jan 2025 14:06:00 +0800 Wei Fang wrote:
> The i.MX95 ENETC supports both MAC hash filter and MAC exact filter. MAC
> hash filter is implenented through a 64-bits hash table to match against
> the hashed addresses, PF and VFs each have two MAC hash tables, one is
> for unicast and the other one is for multicast. But MAC exact filter is
> shared between SIs (PF and VFs), each table entry contains a MAC address
> that may be unicast or multicast and the entry also contains an SI bitmap
> field that indicates for which SIs the entry is valid.
> 
> For i.MX95 ENETC, MAC exact filter only has 4 entries. According to the
> observation of the system default network configuration, the MAC filter
> will be configured with multiple multicast addresses, so MAC exact filter
> does not have enough entries to implement multicast filtering. Therefore,
> the current MAC exact filter is only used for unicast filtering. If the
> number of unicast addresses exceeds 4, then MAC hash filter is used.
> 
> Note that both MAC hash filter and MAC exact filter can only be accessed
> by PF, VFs can notify PF to set its corresponding MAC filter through the
> mailbox mechanism of ENETC. But currently MAC filter is only added for
> i.MX95 ENETC PF. The MAC filter support of ENETC VFs will be supported in
> subsequent patches.

clang reports:

drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pf.c:1158:6: warning: variable 'pf' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
 1158 |         if (err)
      |             ^~~
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pf.c:1179:24: note: uninitialized use occurs here
 1179 |         enetc4_pf_struct_free(pf);
      |                               ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pf.c:1158:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
 1158 |         if (err)
      |         ^~~~~~~~
 1159 |                 goto err_wq_task_init;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pf.c:1128:21: note: initialize the variable 'pf' to silence this warning
 1128 |         struct enetc_pf *pf;
      |                            ^
      |                             = NULL
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