From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, kbuild test robot , "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Subject: [PATCH 4.4 008/124] tracing: Quiet gcc warning about maybe unused link variable Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 10:59:57 +0200 Message-Id: <20180804082702.756841527@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180804082702.434482435@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180804082702.434482435@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) commit 2519c1bbe38d7acacc9aacba303ca6f97482ed53 upstream. Commit 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure") added an if statement that depends on another if statement that gcc doesn't see will initialize the "link" variable and gives the warning: "warning: 'link' may be used uninitialized in this function" It is really a false positive, but to quiet the warning, and also to make sure that it never actually is used uninitialized, initialize the "link" variable to NULL and add an if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link)) where the compiler thinks it could be used uninitialized. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure") Reported-by: kbuild test robot Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static struct trace_kprobe *find_trace_k static int enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct trace_event_file *file) { - struct event_file_link *link; + struct event_file_link *link = NULL; int ret = 0; if (file) { @@ -375,7 +375,9 @@ enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe if (ret) { if (file) { - list_del_rcu(&link->list); + /* Notice the if is true on not WARN() */ + if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link)) + list_del_rcu(&link->list); kfree(link); tk->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_TRACE; } else {