Re: Uninitialized variables in hvm_event_breakpoint (Re: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for XenProject)

[Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>]

On 02/18/2016 12:13 PM, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
> On 2/18/2016 12:01 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 16:02 -0800, scan-admin@coverity.com wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to XenProject
>>> found with Coverity Scan.
>>>
>>> 1 new defect(s) introduced to XenProject found with Coverity Scan.
>>> 4 defect(s), reported by Coverity Scan earlier, were marked fixed in the
>>> recent build analyzed by Coverity Scan.
>>>
>>> New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan
>>> Showing 1 of 1 defect(s)
>>>
>>>
>>> ** CID 1353192:  Uninitialized variables  (UNINIT)
>>> /xen/arch/x86/hvm/event.c: 176 in hvm_event_breakpoint()
>> This appears to have been introduced by:
>>      commit
>>      557c7873f35aa39bd84977b28948457b1b342f92
>>      Author: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdef
>>      ender.com>
>>      Date:   Mon Feb 15 14:14:16 2016 +0100
>>
>>          x86: merge 2 hvm_event_... functions into 1
>>                   This patch merges almost identical functions
>> hvm_event_int3 and
>>          hvm_event_single_step into a single function called
>> hvm_event_breakpoint.
>>          Also fixes event.c file header comment in the process.
>>                   Signed-off-by: Corneliu ZUZU <   
>> czuzu@bitdefender.com    >
>>          Acked-by: Razvan Cojocaru <    rcojocaru@bitdefender.com    >
>>          Acked-by: Jan Beulich <    jbeulich@suse.com    >
>>
>>
>> hvm_event_breakpoint calls hvm_event_traps(&req) and if sync is true that
>> ors some bits into req->flags which was never initialised.
>>
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> _______________________________
>>> *** CID 1353192:  Uninitialized variables  (UNINIT)
>>> /xen/arch/x86/hvm/event.c: 176 in hvm_event_breakpoint()
>>> 170
>>> 171     int hvm_event_breakpoint(unsigned long rip,
>>> 172                              enum hvm_event_breakpoint_type type)
>>> 173     {
>>> 174         struct vcpu *curr = current;
>>> 175         struct arch_domain *ad = &curr->domain->arch;
>>>>>>      CID 1353192:  Uninitialized variables  (UNINIT)
>>>>>>      Declaring variable "req" without initializer.
>>> 176         vm_event_request_t req;
>>> 177
>>> 178         switch ( type )
>>> 179         {
>>> 180         case HVM_EVENT_SOFTWARE_BREAKPOINT:
>>> 181             if ( !ad->monitor.software_breakpoint_enabled )
>>>
>>>
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> 
> Sorry, my bad, I didn't know struct-initialization using labels sets all
> the other fields to zero.
> Shall I submit a fix for this issue?

Right, req->flags. Good catch. Yes, please do, req = {}; should do.


Thanks,
Razvan