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From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: fix theoretical uninitialized variable access
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:33:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161116203358.midi7vmaqirpywtt@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161116141841.2030776-1-arnd@arndb.de>

Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc warns about a  way that it could use an uninitialized variable:
> 
> drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c: In function 'sunxi_pinctrl_init':
> drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c:1191:8: error: 'best_div' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This cannot really happen except if 'freq' is UINT_MAX and 'clock' is
> zero, and both of these are forbidden. To shut up the warning anyway,
> this changes the logic to initialize the return code to the first
> divider value before looking at the others.
> 
> Fixes: 7c926492d38a ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for interrupt debouncing")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks for that patch.

Just out of curiosity, which gcc gives those warnings? I have 6.2 and
it didn't output anything..

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-16 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-16 14:18 [PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: fix theoretical uninitialized variable access Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-16 19:54 ` Linus Walleij
2016-11-16 20:33 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-11-17  9:08   ` Linus Walleij
2016-11-17  9:24     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-17  9:28     ` Maxime Ripard

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