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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: work around uninitialized vht_pfr variable
References: <20190708125050.3689133-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:44:33 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20190708125050.3689133-1-arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message
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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org>, Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>, Pradeep kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org>, Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>, Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org>, Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> As clang points out, the vht_pfr is assigned to a struct member
> without being initialized in one case:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c:7528:7: error: variable 'vht_pfr' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition
>       is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>                 if (!ath10k_mac_can_set_bitrate_mask(ar, band, mask,
>                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c:7551:20: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>                 arvif->vht_pfr = vht_pfr;
>                                  ^~~~~~~
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c:7528:3: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
>                 if (!ath10k_mac_can_set_bitrate_mask(ar, band, mask,
>                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c:7483:12: note: initialize the variable 'vht_pfr' to silence this warning
>         u8 vht_pfr;
>
> Add an explicit but probably incorrect initialization here.
> I suspect we want a better fix here, but chose this approach to
> illustrate the issue.
>
> Fixes: 8b97b055dc9d ("ath10k: fix failure to set multiple fixed rate")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I'll queue this for v5.3.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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