Re: [PATCH][next] habanalabs/gaudi: Fix uninitialized return code rc when read size is zero

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 03:19:48 EST


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:08:26AM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:41 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 6:11 PM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > In the case where size is zero the while loop never assigns rc and the
> > > return value is uninitialized. Fix this by initializing rc to zero.
> > >
> > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> > > Fixes: 639781dcab82 ("habanalabs/gaudi: add debugfs to DMA from the device")
> > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
> > > index 8730b691ec61..b751652f80a8 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
> > > @@ -6252,7 +6252,7 @@ static int gaudi_debugfs_read_dma(struct hl_device *hdev, u64 addr, u32 size,
> > > dma_addr_t dma_addr;
> > > void *kernel_addr;
> > > bool is_eng_idle;
> > > - int rc, dma_id;
> > > + int rc = 0, dma_id;
> > >
> > > kernel_addr = hdev->asic_funcs->asic_dma_alloc_coherent(
> > > hdev, SZ_2M,
> >
> >
> > In general, I don't like adding initializations during the declaration as that
> > tends to hide warnings for the cases where a later initialization is
> > missing. In this case it looks correct though.
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I don't mind taking this patch for eliminating the warning but fyi,
> the caller function (hl_dma_size_write) checks that the size is not
> zero. If the size is zero, we never reach this function.
>
> Greg, do you mind applying it directly to your -next branch ? I don't
> have anything pending and I'm too lazy sending a pull request on a
> single patch ;)
>
> Reviewed-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@xxxxxxxxxx>

I can grab it from this thread, thanks!

greg k-h