n_tty: Distribute switch variables for initialization
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:23:13 +0000 (22:23 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:14:50 +0000 (20:14 +0100)
commite24cd4e6d6aa3ca741cdfdfc01118c4016acebea
tree907c0834a1fc76d73ceec9244f33cf6d254d25b8
parente587e8f17433ddb26954f0edf5b2f95c42155ae9
n_tty: Distribute switch variables for initialization

Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
cannot be automatically initialized with compiler instrumentation (as
they are not part of any execution flow). With GCC's proposed automatic
stack variable initialization feature, this triggers a warning (and they
don't get initialized). Clang's automatic stack variable initialization
(via CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL=y) doesn't throw a warning, but it also
doesn't initialize such variables[1]. Note that these warnings (or silent
skipping) happen before the dead-store elimination optimization phase,
so even when the automatic initializations are later elided in favor of
direct initializations, the warnings remain.

To avoid these problems, move such variables into the "case" where
they're used or lift them up into the main function body.

drivers/tty/n_tty.c: In function ‘__process_echoes’:
drivers/tty/n_tty.c:657:18: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
  657 |     unsigned int num_chars, num_bs;
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916

Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220062313.69209-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/n_tty.c