Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:21:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r330135 - head/sys/ufs/ffs Message-ID: <CANCZdfqizVa4ZNOT2DH8N3NmqBFsgrV65QVcRBpi-R-irZbY1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201803010059.w210xoZ3022625@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201803010029.w210TqF5069963@repo.freebsd.org> <201803010059.w210xoZ3022625@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > Author: cem > > Date: Thu Mar 1 00:29:52 2018 > > New Revision: 330135 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/330135 > > > > Log: > > ffs: softdep_disk_write_complete: Quiesce spurious Coverity warning > > > > Coverity cannot determine that handle_written_indirdep() does not > access > > uninitialized 'sbp' when flags argument is zero. > > > > So, simply move the initialization slightly sooner to silence the > warning. > > > > No functional change. > > I am always concerned when we modify code just to silence a > warning from a static analysis tool. There use to be a pretty > hard and fast rule about this: Dont do it, at most document > that the tool is lacking and giving false positives. > > It double raises an eye brow when the change is made to > silence the tool and "no function change" should be occuring. In this case, there's no harm, and I think it makes the code a little easier to understand... Warner > > Reported by: Coverity > > Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon > > > > Modified: > > head/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c > > > > Modified: head/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c > > ============================================================ > ================== > > --- head/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c Thu Mar 1 00:05:14 2018 > (r330134) > > +++ head/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c Thu Mar 1 00:29:52 2018 > (r330135) > > @@ -10984,6 +10984,8 @@ softdep_disk_write_complete(bp) > > if (ump == NULL) > > return; > > > > + sbp = NULL; > > + > > /* > > * If an error occurred while doing the write, then the data > > * has not hit the disk and the dependencies cannot be processed. > > @@ -11026,7 +11028,6 @@ softdep_disk_write_complete(bp) > > /* > > * Ump SU lock must not be released anywhere in this code segment. > > */ > > - sbp = NULL; > > owk = NULL; > > while ((wk = LIST_FIRST(&bp->b_dep)) != NULL) { > > WORKLIST_REMOVE(wk); > > > > > > -- > Rod Grimes > rgrimes@freebsd.org > >
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