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Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] xen/memory: Fix mapping grant tables with XENMEM_acquire_resource


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:18:04 +0000
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On 29/01/2021 09:46, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 29.01.2021 00:44, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 15/01/2021 16:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 12.01.2021 20:48, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
>>>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
>>>> @@ -4628,7 +4628,6 @@ int arch_acquire_resource(struct domain *d, unsigned 
>>>> int type,
>>>>          if ( id != (unsigned int)ioservid )
>>>>              break;
>>>>  
>>>> -        rc = 0;
>>>>          for ( i = 0; i < nr_frames; i++ )
>>>>          {
>>>>              mfn_t mfn;
>>> How "good" are our chances that older gcc won't recognize that
>>> without this initialization ...
>>>
>>>> @@ -4639,6 +4638,9 @@ int arch_acquire_resource(struct domain *d, unsigned 
>>>> int type,
>>>>  
>>>>              mfn_list[i] = mfn_x(mfn);
>>>>          }
>>>> +        if ( i == nr_frames )
>>>> +            /* Success.  Passed nr_frames back to the caller. */
>>>> +            rc = nr_frames;
>>> ... rc will nevertheless not remain uninitialized when nr_frames
>>> is zero?
>> I don't anticipate this function getting complicated enough for us to
>> need to rely on tricks like that to spot bugs.
>>
>> AFAICT, it would take a rather larger diffstat to make it "uninitialised
>> clean" again.
> Well, we'll see how it goes then. We still allow rather ancient
> gcc, and I will eventually run into a build issue here once
> having rebased accordingly, if such old gcc won't cope.

But those problematic compilers have problems spotting that a variable
is actually initialised on all paths.

This case is opposite.  It is unconditionally initialised to -EINVAL
(just outside of the context above), which breaks some "the compiler
would warn us about error paths" logic that we try to use.

~Andrew



 


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