Re: [PATCH v3] crypto: ccp: initialize 'error' variable to zero

From: Tom Lendacky
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 14:47:50 EST


On 1/10/23 11:08, Tom Rix wrote:
Clang static analysis reports this problem
drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c:1347:3: warning: 3rd function call
argument is an uninitialized value [core.CallAndMessage]
dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: failed to INIT error %#x, rc %d\n",
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

__sev_platform_init_locked() can return without setting the
error parameter, causing the dev_err() to report a garbage
value.

Fixes: 200664d5237f ("crypto: ccp: Add Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) command support")
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>

---
v2 cleanup commit log
v3 cleanup commit log
---
drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
index 56998bc579d6..643cccc06a0b 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sev_issue_cmd_external_user);
void sev_pci_init(void)
{
struct sev_device *sev = psp_master->sev_data;
- int error, rc;
+ int error = 0, rc;
if (!sev)
return;