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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix static checker warning for epp variable

Message ID 20200709200522.3566181-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Series cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix static checker warning for epp variable | expand

Commit Message

Srinivas Pandruvada July 9, 2020, 8:05 p.m. UTC
Fix warning for:
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:731 store_energy_performance_preference()
error: uninitialized symbol 'epp'.

This warning is for a case, when energy_performance_preference attribute
matches pre defined strings. In this case the value of raw epp will not
be used to set EPP bits in MSR_HWP_REQUEST. So initializing with any
value is fine.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
---
This patch is on top of bleed-edge branch at
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Viresh Kumar July 10, 2020, 3:32 a.m. UTC | #1
On 09-07-20, 13:05, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> Fix warning for:
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:731 store_energy_performance_preference()
> error: uninitialized symbol 'epp'.
> 
> This warning is for a case, when energy_performance_preference attribute
> matches pre defined strings. In this case the value of raw epp will not
> be used to set EPP bits in MSR_HWP_REQUEST. So initializing with any
> value is fine.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> This patch is on top of bleed-edge branch at
> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> index 44c7b4677675..94cd07678ee3 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static ssize_t store_energy_performance_preference(
>  	struct cpudata *cpu_data = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
>  	char str_preference[21];
>  	bool raw = false;
> -	u32 epp;
> +	u32 epp = 0;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	ret = sscanf(buf, "%20s", str_preference);

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki July 13, 2020, 1:52 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:05 PM Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Fix warning for:
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:731 store_energy_performance_preference()
> error: uninitialized symbol 'epp'.
>
> This warning is for a case, when energy_performance_preference attribute
> matches pre defined strings. In this case the value of raw epp will not
> be used to set EPP bits in MSR_HWP_REQUEST. So initializing with any
> value is fine.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> This patch is on top of bleed-edge branch at
> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
>
>  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> index 44c7b4677675..94cd07678ee3 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static ssize_t store_energy_performance_preference(
>         struct cpudata *cpu_data = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
>         char str_preference[21];
>         bool raw = false;
> -       u32 epp;
> +       u32 epp = 0;
>         int ret;
>
>         ret = sscanf(buf, "%20s", str_preference);
> --

Applied, thanks!
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diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index 44c7b4677675..94cd07678ee3 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@  static ssize_t store_energy_performance_preference(
 	struct cpudata *cpu_data = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
 	char str_preference[21];
 	bool raw = false;
-	u32 epp;
+	u32 epp = 0;
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%20s", str_preference);