Hi,
Static analysis with Coverity has detected an uninitialized value being used in a comparison. The error was detected on a recent change to drivers/staging/greybus/audio_topology.c however the issue actually dates back to the original commit:
commit 6339d2322c47f4b8ebabf9daf0130328ed72648b Author: Vaibhav Agarwal vaibhav.agarwal@linaro.org Date: Wed Jan 13 14:07:51 2016 -0700
greybus: audio: Add topology parser for GB codec
The analysis is as follows:
425 static int gbcodec_mixer_dapm_ctl_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, 426 struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol) 427 { 428 int ret, wi, max, connect; 429 unsigned int mask, val; 430 struct gb_audio_ctl_elem_info *info; 431 struct gbaudio_ctl_pvt *data;
1. var_decl: Declaring variable gbvalue without initializer. 432 struct gb_audio_ctl_elem_value gbvalue; 433 struct gbaudio_module_info *module; 434 struct snd_soc_dapm_widget_list *wlist = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol); 435 struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *widget = wlist->widgets[0]; 436 struct device *codec_dev = widget->dapm->dev; 437 struct gbaudio_codec_info *gb = dev_get_drvdata(codec_dev); 438 struct gb_bundle *bundle; 439
2. Condition 0 /* __builtin_types_compatible_p() */, taking false branch. 3. Condition 1 /* __builtin_types_compatible_p() */, taking true branch. 4. Falling through to end of if statement. 5. Condition !!branch, taking false branch. 6. Condition ({...; !!branch;}), taking false branch.
440 dev_dbg(codec_dev, "Entered %s:%s\n", __func__, kcontrol->id.name); 441 module = find_gb_module(gb, kcontrol->id.name);
7. Condition !module, taking false branch. 442 if (!module) 443 return -EINVAL; 444 445 data = (struct gbaudio_ctl_pvt *)kcontrol->private_value; 446 info = (struct gb_audio_ctl_elem_info *)data->info;
8. Condition 0 /* !!(!__builtin_types_compatible_p() && !__builtin_types_compatible_p()) */, taking false branch. 447 bundle = to_gb_bundle(module->dev); 448
9. Condition data->vcount == 2, taking true branch. 449 if (data->vcount == 2) 450 dev_warn(widget->dapm->dev, 451 "GB: Control '%s' is stereo, which is not supported\n", 452 kcontrol->id.name); 453 454 max = le32_to_cpu(info->value.integer.max); 455 mask = (1 << fls(max)) - 1; 456 val = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] & mask;
10. Condition !!val, taking true branch. 457 connect = !!val; 458 459 /* update ucontrol */
Uninitialized scalar variable (UNINIT) 11. uninit_use: Using uninitialized value gbvalue.value.integer_value[0]. 460 if (gbvalue.value.integer_value[0] != val) {
The gbvalue.value.integer_value[0] read is bogus since gbvalue was declared on the stack but was not initialized. There seems to be no where that sets this data. I'm assuming most of the time that the comparison works because the garbage value is different from val and so the code in the if stanza is executed.
Anyhow, I'm unsure what the original intent of the code was, so I've not attempted to fix this.
Colin