From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@googlemail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: fix uninitialized variable error
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:45:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211116084546.GA21168@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211110232824.1372368-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:28:24PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> In the case where fw_getenv returns an error when fetching values
> for ememsizea and memsize then variable phys_memsize is not assigned
> a variable and will be uninitialized on a zero check of phys_memsize.
> Fix this by initializing phys_memsize to zero.
>
> Cleans up cppcheck error:
> arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c:100:7: error: Uninitialized variable: phys_memsize [uninitvar]
>
> Fixes: f41d2430bbd6 ("MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: Support > 256MB of RAM")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
> ---
> V2: Use correct email address in SoB.
> ---
> arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c b/arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c
> index a3aa22c77cad..a07a5edbcda7 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/generic/yamon-dt.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static unsigned int __init gen_fdt_mem_array(
> __init int yamon_dt_append_memory(void *fdt,
> const struct yamon_mem_region *regions)
> {
> - unsigned long phys_memsize, memsize;
> + unsigned long phys_memsize = 0, memsize;
> __be32 mem_array[2 * MAX_MEM_ARRAY_ENTRIES];
> unsigned int mem_entries;
> int i, err, mem_off;
> --
> 2.32.0
applied to mips-fixes.
Thomas.
--
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2021-11-10 23:28 [PATCH][V2] MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: fix uninitialized variable error Colin Ian King
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