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Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-
From: |
Andrew Jones |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:45:29 +0100 |
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> If I configure my build with --enable-sanitizers, my GCC (v8.5.0)
> complains:
>
> .../softmmu/device_tree.c: In function ‘qemu_fdt_add_path’:
> .../softmmu/device_tree.c:560:18: error: ‘retval’ may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> int namelen, retval;
> ^~~~~~
>
> It's a false warning since the while loop is always executed at least
> once (p has to be non-NULL, otherwise the derefence in the if-statement
> earlier will crash). Thus let's switch to a do-while loop here instead
> to make the compiler happy in all cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
> softmmu/device_tree.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/softmmu/device_tree.c b/softmmu/device_tree.c
> index 3965c834ca..9e96f5ecd5 100644
> --- a/softmmu/device_tree.c
> +++ b/softmmu/device_tree.c
> @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ int qemu_fdt_add_path(void *fdt, const char *path)
> return -1;
> }
>
> - while (p) {
> + do {
> name = p + 1;
> p = strchr(name, '/');
> namelen = p != NULL ? p - name : strlen(name);
> @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ int qemu_fdt_add_path(void *fdt, const char *path)
> }
>
> parent = retval;
> - }
> + } while (p);
>
> return retval;
> }
> --
> 2.27.0
>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
- [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, Thomas Huth, 2022/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers,
Andrew Jones <=
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2022/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, Richard Henderson, 2022/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, Alistair Francis, 2022/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, wangyanan (Y), 2022/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers, Alistair Francis, 2022/01/10