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Commit e24cd4e6 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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n_tty: Distribute switch variables for initialization

Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
cannot be automatically initialized with compiler instrumentation (as
they are not part of any execution flow). With GCC's proposed automatic
stack variable initialization feature, this triggers a warning (and they
don't get initialized). Clang's automatic stack variable initialization
(via CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL=y) doesn't throw a warning, but it also
doesn't initialize such variables[1]. Note that these warnings (or silent
skipping) happen before the dead-store elimination optimization phase,
so even when the automatic initializations are later elided in favor of
direct initializations, the warnings remain.

To avoid these problems, move such variables into the "case" where
they're used or lift them up into the main function body.

drivers/tty/n_tty.c: In function ‘__process_echoes’:
drivers/tty/n_tty.c:657:18: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
  657 |     unsigned int num_chars, num_bs;
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916



Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220062313.69209-1-keescook@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e587e8f1
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