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tracing/probes: Avoid using params uninitialized in parse_btf_arg()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:19:44 +0000 (20:19 -0700)
committerMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:01:54 +0000 (14:01 +0900)
commit1ed171a3afe81531b3ace96bd151a372dda3ee25
tree99e91faa93a412374f52f9a3d710a0ebf2c3ddfc
parent347e9f5043c89695b01e66b3ed111755afcf1911
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
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c