Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialize warning

[Yishai Hadas <yishaih@dev.mellanox.co.il>]

On 10/25/2016 7:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There is an old warning about mlx4_SW2HW_EQ_wrapper on x86:
>
> ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c: In function ‘mlx4_SW2HW_EQ_wrapper’:
> ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c:3071:10: error: ‘eq’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> The problem here is that gcc won't track the state of the variable
> across a spin_unlock. Moving the assignment out of the lock is
> safe here and avoids the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
> index 84d7857ccc27..c548beaaf910 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
> @@ -1605,13 +1605,14 @@ static int eq_res_start_move_to(struct mlx4_dev *dev, int slave, int index,
>  			r->com.from_state = r->com.state;
>  			r->com.to_state = state;
>  			r->com.state = RES_EQ_BUSY;
> -			if (eq)
> -				*eq = r;
>  		}
>  	}
>
>  	spin_unlock_irq(mlx4_tlock(dev));
>
> +	if (!err && eq)
> +		*eq = r;
> +
>  	return err;
>  }
>
>