On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Clang warns about what is clearly a case of passing an uninitalized
> variable into a static function:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c:1852:23: error: variable 'gains'
> is uninitialized when used here
> [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
> lpphy_papd_cal(dev, gains, 0, 1, 30);
> ^~~~~
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c:1838:2: note: variable 'gains' is
> declared here
> struct lpphy_tx_gains gains, oldgains;
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> However, this function is empty, and its arguments are never evaluated,
> so gcc in contrast does not warn here. Both compilers behave in a
> reasonable way as far as I can tell, so we should change the code
> to avoid the warning everywhere.
>
> We could just eliminate the lpphy_papd_cal() function entirely,
> given that it has had the TODO comment in it for 10 years now
> and is rather unlikely to ever get done. I'm doing a simpler
> change here, and just pass the 'oldgains' variable in that has
> been initialized, based on the guess that this is what was
> originally meant.
>
> Fixes: 2c0d6100da3e ("b43: LP-PHY: Begin implementing calibration & software
> RFKILL support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c
> index 46408a560814..aedee026c5e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.c
> @@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ static void lpphy_papd_cal(struct b43_wldev *dev,
> struct lpphy_tx_gains gains,
> static void lpphy_papd_cal_txpwr(struct b43_wldev *dev)
> {
> struct b43_phy_lp *lpphy = dev->phy.lp;
> - struct lpphy_tx_gains gains, oldgains;
> + struct lpphy_tx_gains oldgains;
> int old_txpctl, old_afe_ovr, old_rf, old_bbmult;
>
> lpphy_read_tx_pctl_mode_from_hardware(dev);
> @@ -1849,9 +1849,9 @@ static void lpphy_papd_cal_txpwr(struct b43_wldev *dev)
> lpphy_set_tx_power_control(dev, B43_LPPHY_TXPCTL_OFF);
>
> if (dev->dev->chip_id == 0x4325 && dev->dev->chip_rev == 0)
> - lpphy_papd_cal(dev, gains, 0, 1, 30);
> + lpphy_papd_cal(dev, oldgains, 0, 1, 30);
> else
> - lpphy_papd_cal(dev, gains, 0, 1, 65);
> + lpphy_papd_cal(dev, oldgains, 0, 1, 65);
>
> if (old_afe_ovr)
> lpphy_set_tx_gains(dev, oldgains);
> --
> 2.20.0
>
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