From 1ed171a3afe81531b3ace96bd151a372dda3ee25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Chancellor Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:19:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tracing/probes: Avoid using params uninitialized in parse_btf_arg() After a recent change in clang to strengthen uninitialized warnings [1], it points out that in one of the error paths in parse_btf_arg(), params is used uninitialized: kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:660:19: warning: variable 'params' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] 660 | return PTR_ERR(params); | ^~~~~~ Match many other NO_BTF_ENTRY error cases and return -ENOENT, clearing up the warning. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250715-trace_probe-fix-const-uninit-warning-v1-1-98960f91dd04@kernel.org/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2110 Fixes: d157d7694460 ("tracing/probes: Support BTF field access from $retval") Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2464313eef01c5b1edf0eccf57a32cdee01472c7 [1] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) --- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c index 424751cdf31f9..40830a3ecd96c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int parse_btf_arg(char *varname, ret = query_btf_context(ctx); if (ret < 0 || ctx->nr_params == 0) { trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, NO_BTF_ENTRY); - return PTR_ERR(params); + return -ENOENT; } } params = ctx->params; -- 2.39.5