From: mturquette@ti.com (Mike Turquette)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] clk: __clk_set_parent: set uninitialized variable
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:30:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703233001.GB28439@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703105042.GJ22016@pengutronix.de>
On 20120703-12:50, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:29:10PM -0700, Turquette, Mike wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 July 2012 01:11 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > >>
> > >> This patch fixes the following warning:
> > >>
> > >> ? ? ?drivers/clk/clk.c: In function '__clk_set_parent':
> > >> ? ? ?drivers/clk/clk.c:1083:5: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in
> > >> this function [-Wuninitialized]
> > >>
> > >> which has been introduced with commit:
> > >>
> > >> ? ? ?commit 7975059db572eb47f0fb272a62afeae272a4b209
> > >> ? ? ?Author: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@ti.com>
> > >> ? ? ?Date: ? Wed Jun 6 14:41:31 2012 +0530
> > >>
> > >> ? ? ? ? ?clk: Allow late cache allocation for clk->parents
> > >>
> > >> This patch applies to linux-3.5-rc5
> > >>
> > >> Cc: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@ti.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde<mkl@pengutronix.de>
> > >> ---
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> here an updated version. Changes since v1:
> > >> - Set i to clk->num_parents as Uwe pointed out.
> > >
> > >
> > > I started looking at how to avoid this initing
> > > of i to clk->parents (which is correct for the logic
> > > used below, but somehow seems error prone if someone
> > > happens to change the logic without noticing the init
> > > part)
> > > This is what I came up with, not tested at all, but
> > > worth considering if Mike dislikes the idea of initing
> > > i to clk->parents.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Rajendra and Marc,
> >
> > I prefer the code flow in Rajendra's change. It seems more readable
> > and has a negative diffstat ;-)
> >
> > $ git diff --stat
> > drivers/clk/clk.c | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > Rajendra, can you test and send a proper patch for the same? Thanks
> > Marc for sending your two previous patches. I don't think that I will
> > Cc this one to stable since it falls under the category of
> > "theoretical but not yet observed" bugs.
> Maybe it's not observed yet only because
> 7975059db572eb47f0fb272a62afeae272a4b209 isn't deeply tested yet? Don't
> know, just a guess.
>
Fair enough. I Cc'd stable on that patch and copied you on the fixes
request to Linus for 3.5-rc6.
Thanks,
Mike
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
> --
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> Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-03 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-02 7:41 [PATCH v2] clk: __clk_set_parent: set uninitialized variable Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-07-02 8:42 ` Rajendra Nayak
2012-07-02 8:45 ` Rajendra Nayak
2012-07-02 23:29 ` Turquette, Mike
2012-07-03 10:29 ` Rajendra Nayak
2012-07-03 10:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2012-07-03 23:30 ` Mike Turquette [this message]
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