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usb: atm: cxacru: Merge cxacru_upload_firmware() into cxacru_heavy_init()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:11:18 +0000 (12:11 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:33:31 +0000 (11:33 +0200)
commit8d1b02e5d7e3a6d2acffb1f4c094678fda9e3456
tree87b35389a928c88319f3ade064383c6772a05ec8
parentfcb476990beb55c958db0b5aa2e9ca772d0fc982
usb: atm: cxacru: Merge cxacru_upload_firmware() into cxacru_heavy_init()

After a recent change in clang to expose uninitialized warnings from
const variables [1], there is a warning in cxacru_heavy_init():

  drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c:1104:6: error: variable 'bp' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
   1104 |         if (instance->modem_type->boot_rom_patch) {
        |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c:1113:39: note: uninitialized use occurs here
   1113 |         cxacru_upload_firmware(instance, fw, bp);
        |                                              ^~
  drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c:1104:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
   1104 |         if (instance->modem_type->boot_rom_patch) {
        |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c:1095:32: note: initialize the variable 'bp' to silence this warning
   1095 |         const struct firmware *fw, *bp;
        |                                       ^
        |                                        = NULL

While the warning is technically correct that bp is conditionally passed
uninitialized to cxacru_upload_firmware(), it is ultimately a false
positive warning on the uninitialized use of bp because the same
condition that initializes bp, instance->modem_type->boot_rom_patch, is
the same one that gates the use of bp within cxacru_upload_firmware().
As this warning occurs in clang's frontend before inlining occurs, it
cannot know that these conditions are indentical to avoid the warning.

Manually inline cxacru_upload_firmware() into cxacru_heavy_init(), as
that is its only callsite, so that clang can see that bp is initialized
and used under the same condition, clearing up the warning without any
functional changes to the code (LLVM was already doing this inlining
later).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1b0e61465234 ("[PATCH] USB ATM: driver for the Conexant AccessRunner chipset cxacru")
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2102
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2464313eef01c5b1edf0eccf57a32cdee01472c7
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250722-usb-cxacru-fix-clang-21-uninit-warning-v2-1-6708a18decd2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c