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arch: x86: kvm: x86.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables

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Rickard Strandqvist May 31, 2014, 11:05 p.m. UTC
There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.

This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Paolo Bonzini June 3, 2014, 12:04 p.m. UTC | #1
Il 01/06/2014 01:05, Rickard Strandqvist ha scritto:
> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
> 
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>

No, there isn't.  The full context looks like this:

        longmode = is_long_mode(vcpu) && cs_l == 1;
        if (!longmode) {
                param = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX) << 32) |
                        (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) & 0xffffffff);
                ingpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RBX) << 32) |
                        (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX) & 0xffffffff);
                outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
                        (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
        }
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
        else {
                param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
                ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
                outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
        }
#endif

and longmode must be zero if !CONFIG_X86_64:

static inline int is_long_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
        return vcpu->arch.efer & EFER_LMA;
#else
        return 0;
#endif
}

So it's the static checker that cannot understand #ifdef well
enough and ought to be fixed.

Paolo
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Michael Tokarev June 3, 2014, 1:06 p.m. UTC | #2
03.06.2014 16:04, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 01/06/2014 01:05, Rickard Strandqvist ha scritto:
>> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
>>
>> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
> 
> No, there isn't.  The full context looks like this:
> 
>         longmode = is_long_mode(vcpu) && cs_l == 1;
>         if (!longmode) {
>                 param = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX) << 32) |
>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) & 0xffffffff);
>                 ingpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RBX) << 32) |
>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX) & 0xffffffff);
>                 outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
>         }
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>         else {
>                 param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
>                 ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
>                 outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
>         }
> #endif
> 
> and longmode must be zero if !CONFIG_X86_64:

This is not the first time this code is attempted to be changed.

Maybe adding an additional #ifdef..endif around the longmode
assignment and the "if" above will solve this for good?

Or maybe something like this:

 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
         if (!(is_long_mode(vcpu) && cs_l == 1)) {
 #else
         if (1) {
 #endif
                 param = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX) << 32) |
                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) & 0xffffffff);
                 ingpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RBX) << 32) |
                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX) & 0xffffffff);
                 outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
         }
         else {
                 param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
                 ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
                 outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
         }

, to make it all explicit and obvious?

Thanks,

/mjt

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Paolo Bonzini June 3, 2014, 1:11 p.m. UTC | #3
Il 03/06/2014 15:06, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
> 03.06.2014 16:04, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 01/06/2014 01:05, Rickard Strandqvist ha scritto:
>>> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
>>>
>>> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
>>
>> No, there isn't.  The full context looks like this:
>>
>>         longmode = is_long_mode(vcpu) && cs_l == 1;
>>         if (!longmode) {
>>                 param = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX) << 32) |
>>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) & 0xffffffff);
>>                 ingpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RBX) << 32) |
>>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX) & 0xffffffff);
>>                 outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
>>                         (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
>>         }
>> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>         else {
>>                 param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
>>                 ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
>>                 outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
>>         }
>> #endif
>>
>> and longmode must be zero if !CONFIG_X86_64:
>
> This is not the first time this code is attempted to be changed.
>
> Maybe adding an additional #ifdef..endif around the longmode
> assignment and the "if" above will solve this for good?
>
> Or maybe something like this:
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>          if (!(is_long_mode(vcpu) && cs_l == 1)) {
>  #else
>          if (1) {
>  #endif
>                  param = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX) << 32) |
>                          (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) & 0xffffffff);
>                  ingpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RBX) << 32) |
>                          (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX) & 0xffffffff);
>                  outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
>                          (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
>          }
>          else {
>                  param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
>                  ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
>                  outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
>          }
>
> , to make it all explicit and obvious?

... and ugly too.

If the first person who got the answer had reported a bug against 
cppcheck, this perhaps would have been avoided.

Paolo

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Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 20316c6..88bf642 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5691,13 +5691,17 @@  int kvm_hv_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		outgpa = ((u64)kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDI) << 32) |
 			(kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RSI) & 0xffffffff);
 	}
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	else {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 		param = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
 		ingpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RDX);
 		outgpa = kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R8);
-	}
+#else
+		param = 0;
+		ingpa = 0;
+		outgpa = 0;
 #endif
+	}
 
 	code = param & 0xffff;
 	fast = (param >> 16) & 0x1;