While building xen with GCC 14.2.1 with "-fcondition-coverage" option
or with "-Og", the compiler produces a false positive warning:
arch/x86/irq.c: In function ‘create_irq’:
arch/x86/irq.c:281:11: error: ‘desc’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
281 | ret = init_one_irq_desc(desc);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/x86/irq.c:269:22: note: ‘desc’ was declared here
269 | struct irq_desc *desc;
| ^~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [Rules.mk:252: arch/x86/irq.o] Error 1
While we have signed/unsigned comparison both in "for" loop and in
"if" statement, this still can't lead to use of uninitialized "desc",
as either loop will be executed at least once, or the function will
return early. So this is a clearly false positive warning due to a
bug [1] in GCC.
Initialize "desc" with NULL to make GCC happy.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119665
Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
int create_irq(nodeid_t node, bool grant_access)
{
int irq, ret;
- struct irq_desc *desc;
+ struct irq_desc *desc = NULL ; /* gcc14 -Og or -fcondition-coverage */
for (irq = nr_irqs_gsi; irq < nr_irqs; irq++)
{