From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:50870 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730392AbeKLFs1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:48:27 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" , "kbuild test robot" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:49:05 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.16 297/366] tracing: Quiet gcc warning about maybe unused link variable In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.16.61-rc1 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. 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: Ben Hutchings --- 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 @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static struct trace_kprobe *find_trace_k static int enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct ftrace_event_file *file) { - struct event_file_link *link; + struct event_file_link *link = NULL; int ret = 0; if (file) { @@ -387,7 +387,9 @@ 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 {