On 2022/1/7 21:38, 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 <th...@redhat.com>
---
softmmu/device_tree.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Yanan Wang <wangyana...@huawei.com>
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;
}
