Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: qla4xxx: Don't call dma_free_coherent when buf is NULL

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Mar 08 2019 - 16:17:04 EST


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:17 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, Clang warns:
>
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c:5915:7: warning: variable 'buf_dma' is
> used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>
> Don't call dma_free_coherent when buf is NULL, meaning that we never
> called dma_alloc_coherent and initialized buf_dma.
>
> Fixes: 2a991c215978 ("[SCSI] qla4xxx: Boot from SAN support for open-iscsi")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/391
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Check that buf is not NULL, which matches how dma_free_coherent is
> called in the rest of the tree. This still fixes the warning.
>
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> index 16a18d5d856f..9f56dafc3cda 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> @@ -5982,7 +5982,8 @@ static int get_fw_boot_info(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, uint16_t ddb_index[])
> ddb_index[1]));
>
> exit_boot_info_free:
> - dma_free_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size, buf, buf_dma);
> + if (buf)
> + dma_free_coherent(&ha->pdev->dev, size, buf, buf_dma);

Same thoughts as: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/8/786
WDYT?

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers