Re: [PATCH] clk: lpc32xx: fix compilation warning

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 02/22, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> On 22.02.2016 20:49, slemieux.tyco@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@tycoint.com>
> > 
> > This patch remove the following compilation warning:
> > - drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c: In function 'lpc32xx_clk_register':
> >   warning: 'hw' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> > - drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c: In function 'clk_hclk_pll_round_rate':
> >   warning: 'p' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> >   warning: 'n' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> >   warning: 'm' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> All warnings are false positives, please explicitly mention this in the commit message.
> 
> > Tested using gcc version 4.7.3.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@tycoint.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c b/drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c
> > index 48b3a11..331f91b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/nxp/clk-lpc32xx.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/clk-provider.h>
> >  #include <linux/of_address.h>
> >  #include <linux/regmap.h>
> > +#include <linux/compiler-gcc.h>
> >  
> >  #include <dt-bindings/clock/lpc32xx-clock.h>
> >  
> > @@ -588,7 +589,8 @@ static long clk_hclk_pll_round_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
> >  				    unsigned long *parent_rate)
> >  {
> >  	struct lpc32xx_pll_clk *clk = to_lpc32xx_pll_clk(hw);
> > -	u64 m_i, m, n, p, o = rate, i = *parent_rate, d = (u64)rate << 6;
> > +	u64 m_i, o = rate, i = *parent_rate, d = (u64)rate << 6;
> > +	u64 uninitialized_var(m), uninitialized_var(n), uninitialized_var(p);
> 
> I think that dummy initialization is good enough here, i.e. assigning
> the variables to 0, AFAIU that's a common way to deal with compiler's false
> positives, usage of uninitialized_var() looks exotic.
> 
> >  	int p_i, n_i;
> >  
> >  	pr_debug("%s: %lu/%lu\n", clk_hw_get_name(hw), *parent_rate, rate);
> > @@ -1414,7 +1416,7 @@ static struct clk * __init lpc32xx_clk_register(u32 id)
> >  			.flags = lpc32xx_clk->flags,
> >  			.ops = clk_hw->hw0.ops,
> >  		};
> > -		struct clk_hw *hw;
> > +		struct clk_hw *uninitialized_var(hw);
> 
> Same as above, struct clk_hw *hw = NULL would be good enough here.
> 

Or return an error pointer in the if/else after this if the type
doesn't match. We'd like to avoid real uninitialized usage from
creeping in due to the use of uninitialized_var.

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