Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] selftests: kselftest.h: mark functions with 'noreturn' | From | Shuah Khan <> | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:35:28 -0700 |
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On 11/18/21 2:58 AM, Anders Roxell wrote: > When building kselftests/capabilities the following warning shows up: > > clang -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -Wall test_execve.c -lcap-ng -lrt -ldl -o test_execve > test_execve.c:121:13: warning: variable 'have_outer_privilege' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized] > } else if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0) { > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > test_execve.c:136:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here > return have_outer_privilege; > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > test_execve.c:121:9: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true > } else if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0) { > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > test_execve.c:94:27: note: initialize the variable 'have_outer_privilege' to silence this warning > bool have_outer_privilege; > ^ > = false > > Rework so all the ksft_exit_*() functions have attribue > '__attribute__((noreturn))' so the compiler knows that there wont be
won't be
> any return from the function. That said, without > '__attribute__((noreturn))' the compiler warns about the above issue > since it thinks that it will get back from the ksft_exit_skip() > function, which it wont. > Cleaning up the callers that rely on ksft_exit_*() return code, since > the functions ksft_exit_*() have never returned anything. > > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> > ---
My commit script failed due to checkpatch warns. Run checkpatchp.l --strict to find the problems and send me v4
thanks, -- Shuah
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