Hello Masami Hiramatsu (Google),

Commit 25f00e40ce79 ("tracing/probes: Support $argN in return probe
(kprobe and fprobe)") from Mar 4, 2024 (linux-next), leads to the
following Smatch static checker warning:

        kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:856 store_trace_entry_data()
        error: uninitialized symbol 'val'.

kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
    846                 return;
    847 
    848         for (i = 0; i < earg->size; i++) {
    849                 struct fetch_insn *code = &earg->code[i];
    850 
    851                 switch (code->op) {
    852                 case FETCH_OP_ARG:
    853                         val = regs_get_kernel_argument(regs, 
code->param);
    854                         break;
    855                 case FETCH_OP_ST_EDATA:
--> 856                         *(unsigned long *)((unsigned long)edata + 
code->offset) = val;

Probably the earg->code[i] always has FETCH_OP_ARG before
FETCH_OP_ST_EDATA but Smatch isn't smart enough to figure that out...

    857                         break;
    858                 case FETCH_OP_END:
    859                         goto end;
    860                 default:
    861                         break;
    862                 }
    863         }
    864 end:
    865         return;
    866 }

regards,
dan carpenter

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