Re: [PATCH] Initialize field_size prior to use

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:09:31 -0700
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:

> Building with CC=clang yields:
> 
> ```
>   COMPILE FPIC       event-parse.o
> event-parse.c:4313:17: warning: variable 'field_size' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>                                            offset, field_size)) {
>                                                    ^~~~~~~~~~
> event-parse.c:4108:25: note: initialize the variable 'field_size' to silence this warning
>         unsigned int field_size;
>                                ^
>                                 = 0
> 1 warning generated.
> ```
> 
> dynamic_offset_field will compute the length of the field and so use
> that to give field_size a legitimate value.

Actually the field_size is not needed here.

I have a patch pending to fix this:

  https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-trace-devel/patch/20220923123014.489e0e39@gandalf.local.home/

-- Steve

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
>  src/event-parse.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/event-parse.c b/src/event-parse.c
> index 980e980..b3e0ea7 100644
> --- a/src/event-parse.c
> +++ b/src/event-parse.c
> @@ -4308,7 +4308,7 @@ eval_num_arg(void *data, int size, struct tep_event *event, struct tep_print_arg
>  	case TEP_PRINT_DYNAMIC_ARRAY:
>  		/* Without [], we pass the address to the dynamic data */
>  		dynamic_offset_field(tep, arg->dynarray.field, data, size,
> -				     &offset, NULL);
> +				     &offset, &field_size);
>  		if (check_data_offset_size(event, arg->field.name, size,
>  					   offset, field_size)) {
>  			val = (unsigned long)data;