From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mei: mei-amt-version: remove unneeded call of mei_deinit()
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:14:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25291.1388769299@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388769034.20141.11.camel@x220>
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
>
> Building mei-amt-version.o triggers a GCC warning:
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c: In function 'main':
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c:103:5: warning: 'acmd.fd' is used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
> if (cl->fd != -1)
> ^
> Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c:443:21: note: 'acmd.fd' was declared here
> struct amt_host_if acmd;
> ^
>
> GCC is correct. See, the call chain that GCC detects must be
> main()
> amt_host_if_init()
> mei_init()
> mei_deinit()
>
> But when we enter mei_deinit() struct amt_host_if acmd is still
> unitialized. That makes the test for (effectively) amt_host_if->mei_cl->fd
> bogus.
>
> But it turns out that call of mei_deinit() isn't needed at all. All of
> the members of mei_cl will be set later in mei_init() and none will be
> used before they are set. So we can simply drop this call of
> mei_deinit().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Builds without warning for me.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-03 16:08 [PATCH 7/7] Fix uninitialised variable warning in mei-amt-version.c David Howells
2014-01-03 16:23 ` Paul Bolle
2014-01-03 16:34 ` David Howells
2014-01-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] mei: mei-amt-version: remove unneeded call of mei_deinit() Paul Bolle
2014-01-03 17:14 ` David Howells [this message]
2014-01-04 21:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] Fix uninitialised variable warning in mei-amt-version.c Winkler, Tomas
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