[RFC] kvm: vgic: are these warnings wrong?

[AKASHI Takahiro]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 09:07:46AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 14/11/17 06:47, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> > 
> > I've just run a static analyzer to v4.14.
> > While most of warnings/errors are false-positive, as you can easily imagine,
> > there are something dubious. Can you please check ones below?
> > 
> > virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c:352 vgic_v3_save_pending_tables() error: uninitialized symbol 'val'.
> > virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c:424 its_sync_lpi_pending_table() error: uninitialized symbol 'pendmask'.
> > virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c:779 vgic_its_alloc_collection() error: potential null dereference 'collection'.  (kzalloc returns null)
> > virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c:115 kvm_vgic_setup_default_irq_routing() warn: double check that we're allocating correct size: 48 vs 64
> > 
> > # I believe that the messages here are self-describing.
> 
> Hi Takahiro,
> 
> All of these are pretty good findings... Out of curiosity, what is the
> tool you've been using?

smatch!
https://blogs.oracle.com/linuxkernel/smatch-static-analysis-tool-overview,-by-dan-carpenter

> Many thanks for reporting these bugs.

I want to find more bugs with such tools :) Just kidding.

-Takahiro AKASHI

> 	M.
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