Re: [PATCH net-next] qed: fix the allocation of the chains with an external PBL

[David Miller]

From: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:51:33 +0300

> Dan reports static checker warning:
> 
> "The patch 9b6ee3cf95d3: "qed: sanitize PBL chains allocation" from Jul
> 23, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_chain.c:299 qed_chain_alloc_pbl()
> 	error: uninitialized symbol 'pbl_virt'.
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_chain.c
>    249  static int qed_chain_alloc_pbl(struct qed_dev *cdev, struct qed_chain *chain)
>    250  {
>    251          struct device *dev = &cdev->pdev->dev;
>    252          struct addr_tbl_entry *addr_tbl;
>    253          dma_addr_t phys, pbl_phys;
>    254          __le64 *pbl_virt;
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [...]
>    271          if (chain->b_external_pbl)
>    272                  goto alloc_pages;
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ uninitialized
> [...]
>    298                  /* Fill the PBL table with the physical address of the page */
>    299                  pbl_virt[i] = cpu_to_le64(phys);
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
> [...]
> "
> 
> This issue was introduced with commit c3a321b06a80 ("qed: simplify
> initialization of the chains with an external PBL"), when
> chain->pbl_sp.table_virt initialization was moved up to
> qed_chain_init_params().
> Fix it by initializing pbl_virt with an already filled chain struct field.
> 
> Fixes: c3a321b06a80 ("qed: simplify initialization of the chains with an external PBL")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.