Re: staging: lustre: lnet: convert selftest to use workqueues

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 16 2018 - 11:54:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 03:59:58PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CoverityScan detected a couple of issues, one of which was introduced
> with the following commit:
>
> commit 6106c0f82481e686b337ee0c403821fb5c3c17ef
> Author: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jan 11 15:06:40 2018 +1100
>
> CoverityScan CID#1464078 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>
> I'm not sure what the expected error return for these conditions are, so
> I've not fixed these as I didn't want to hazard a guess.
>
> static int
> lnet_selftest_init(void)
> {
> int nscheds;
> int rc;
>
> // note here rc is not initialized
>
> int i;
>
> lst_serial_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("lst_s", 0);
> if (!lst_serial_wq) {
> CERROR("Failed to create serial WI scheduler for LST\n");
> return rc;
>
> // garbage value in rc is returned
>
> }
> lst_init_step = LST_INIT_WI_SERIAL;
>
> nscheds = cfs_cpt_number(lnet_cpt_table());
> lst_test_wq = kvmalloc_array(nscheds, sizeof(lst_test_wq[0]),
> GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> if (!lst_test_wq)
> goto error;
>
> // this also returns garbage in rc

Already fixed in my tree by a patch from Arnd and me :)

thanks,

greg k-h