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[4/4] KVM: x86: prevent uninitialized variable warning in check_svme()

Message ID 20170518173732.12185-5-rkrcmar@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Radim Krčmář May 18, 2017, 5:37 p.m. UTC
get_msr() of MSR_EFER is currently always going to succeed, but static
checker doesn't see that far.

Don't complicate stuff and just use 0 for the fallback -- it means that
the feature is not present.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Hildenbrand May 19, 2017, 1:32 p.m. UTC | #1
On 18.05.2017 19:37, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> get_msr() of MSR_EFER is currently always going to succeed, but static
> checker doesn't see that far.
> 
> Don't complicate stuff and just use 0 for the fallback -- it means that
> the feature is not present.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index c25cfaf584e7..0816ab2e8adc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@ static int check_dr_write(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>  
>  static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>  {
> -	u64 efer;
> +	u64 efer = 0;
>  
>  	ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer);
>  
> 

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index c25cfaf584e7..0816ab2e8adc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@  static int check_dr_write(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 
 static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 {
-	u64 efer;
+	u64 efer = 0;
 
 	ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer);