Re: [PATCH] arm64: percpu: Initialize ret in the default case

From: Dennis Zhou
Date: Tue Sep 25 2018 - 16:34:01 EST


Hi Nathan,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:44:59PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns that if the default case is taken, ret will be
> uninitialized.
>
> ./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:196:2: warning: variable 'ret' is used
> uninitialized whenever switch default is taken
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> default:
> ^~~~~~~
> ./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:200:9: note: uninitialized use occurs
> here
> return ret;
> ^~~
> ./arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:157:19: note: initialize the variable
> 'ret' to silence this warning
> unsigned long ret, loop;
> ^
> = 0
>
> This warning appears several times while building the erofs filesystem.
> While it's not strictly wrong, the BUILD_BUG will prevent this from
> becoming a true problem. Initialize ret to 0 in the default case right
> before the BUILD_BUG to silence all of these warnings.
>
> Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

I've applied this to percpu/for-4.20.

Thanks,
Dennis