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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fishy code in arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:time_cpufreq_notifier()
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:21:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601142104.GA15907@infradead.org> (raw)

Just notice the following error from gcc 4.4:

arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c: In function 'time_cpufreq_notifier':
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:634: warning: 'dummy' may be used uninitialized in this function

dummy is only used in the following way in this function:

	lpj = &dummy;

and then dummy might be overriden in the following odd way:

	if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS))
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
		lpj = &cpu_data(freq->cpu).loops_per_jiffy;
#else
	lpj = &boot_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy;
#endif

and then is used in

	if (!ref_freq) {
		ref_freq = freq->old;
		loops_per_jiffy_ref = *lpj;
		tsc_khz_ref = tsc_khz;
	}

to me that looks like it can indeed be used unitialized for the case
where we do have CONFIG_SMP set, freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS is
true and ref_freq is false.

Can that case actually happen?

             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 14:21 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-06-01 16:29 ` Dave Jones
2009-06-01 16:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-01 20:56     ` Jon Masters
2009-06-01 21:49       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-06-01 21:50         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-06-01 22:54 ` Daniel Barkalow

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