Re: [PATCH ] scsi: page warning: 'page' may be used uninitialized

[Mike Christie]

On 9/23/20 7:19 PM, john.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> corrects: drivers/target/target_core_user.c:688:6: warning: 'page' may be used
> uninitialized
> 
> Fixes: 3c58f737231e ("scsi: target: tcmu: Optimize use of
> flush_dcache_page")
> 
> To: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/target/target_core_user.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> index 9b7592350502..86b28117787e 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static void scatter_data_area(struct tcmu_dev *udev,
>  	void *from, *to = NULL;
>  	size_t copy_bytes, to_offset, offset;
>  	struct scatterlist *sg;
> -	struct page *page;
> +	struct page *page = NULL;
>  
>  	for_each_sg(data_sg, sg, data_nents, i) {
>  		int sg_remaining = sg->length;
> 

Looks ok for now. In the next kernel we can do the more invasive approach and
add a new struct/helpers to make the code cleaner and fix it properly.

Acked-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>