From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/probes: Avoid using params uninitialized in parse_btf_arg()
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:19:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250715-trace_probe-fix-const-uninit-warning-v1-1-98960f91dd04@kernel.org> (raw)
After a recent change in clang to strengthen uninitialized warnings [1],
it points out that in one of the error paths in parse_btf_arg(), params
is used uninitialized:
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:660:19: warning: variable 'params' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
660 | return PTR_ERR(params);
| ^~~~~~
Match many other NO_BTF_ENTRY error cases and return -ENOENT, clearing
up the warning.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2110
Fixes: d157d7694460 ("tracing/probes: Support BTF field access from $retval")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2464313eef01c5b1edf0eccf57a32cdee01472c7 [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index 424751cdf31f..40830a3ecd96 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int parse_btf_arg(char *varname,
ret = query_btf_context(ctx);
if (ret < 0 || ctx->nr_params == 0) {
trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, NO_BTF_ENTRY);
- return PTR_ERR(params);
+ return -ENOENT;
}
}
params = ctx->params;
---
base-commit: 6921d1e07cb5eddec830801087b419194fde0803
change-id: 20250715-trace_probe-fix-const-uninit-warning-7dc3accce903
Best regards,
--
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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