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ACPI / watchdog: properly initialize resources
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:49:02 +0000 (01:49 +0200)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:49:02 +0000 (01:49 +0200)
We copy a local resource structure into a list, but only
initialize some of its members, as pointed out by gcc-4.4:

drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c: In function 'acpi_watchdog_init':
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c:105: error: 'res.child' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c:105: error: 'res.sibling' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c:105: error: 'res.parent' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c:105: error: 'res.desc' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c:105: error: 'res.name' may be used uninitialized in this function

Newer compilers can presumably optimize the uninitialized access
away entirely and don't warn at all, but rely on the kzalloc()
to zero the structure first. This adds an explicit initialization
to force consistent behavior.

Fixes: 058dfc767008 (ACPI / watchdog: Add support for WDAT hardware watchdog)
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c

index bf22c29d25179e937523c026c8028f644f3379f6..11b113f8e36741aeb00e921ee64a5ae871f8d55f 100644 (file)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ void __init acpi_watchdog_init(void)
        for (i = 0; i < wdat->entries; i++) {
                const struct acpi_generic_address *gas;
                struct resource_entry *rentry;
-               struct resource res;
+               struct resource res = {};
                bool found;
 
                gas = &entries[i].register_region;