[U-Boot] clang sandbox warning

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jeroen,

On 10 June 2014 19:38, Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen at myspectrum.nl> wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
> While trying to find a u-boot make command which likely works with a
> pre-build clang linux package I got the following warnings:
>
> `make CC="clang -no-integrated-as" HOSTCC="clang -no-integrated-as"
> HOST_TOOLS_ALL=y sandbox_config tools`
>
>
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/arch/sandbox/include/asm/bitops.h:59:17:
> warning: variable 'flags' is uninitialized when used here
> [-Wuninitialized]
>         local_irq_save(flags);
>                        ^~~~~
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/arch/sandbox/include/asm/bitops.h:56:21:
> note: initialize the variable 'flags' to silence this warning
>         unsigned long flags;
>                            ^
>                             = 0
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/arch/sandbox/include/asm/bitops.h:81:17:
> warning: variable 'flags' is uninitialized when used here
> [-Wuninitialized]
>         local_irq_save(flags);
>                        ^~~~~
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/arch/sandbox/include/asm/bitops.h:78:21:
> note: initialize the variable 'flags' to silence this warning
>         unsigned long flags;
>                            ^
>                             = 0
>
> I guess gcc accepts this since flags is not actually used. Anyway merely
> mentioned for completeness. You might be interested in:
>
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/tools/../lib/rsa/rsa-sign.c:77:6: warning:
> variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>         if (!rsa) {
>             ^~~~
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/tools/../lib/rsa/rsa-sign.c:94:9: note:
> uninitialized use occurs here
>         return ret;
>                ^~~
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/tools/../lib/rsa/rsa-sign.c:77:2: note:
> remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
>         if (!rsa) {
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/tools/../lib/rsa/rsa-sign.c:48:9: note:
> initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
>         int ret;
>                ^
>                 = 0
>
> which actually looks like a bug. And:
>
>
> /home/jeroen/software/u-boot/tools/../lib/rsa/rsa-verify.c:59:27:
> warning: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true
> [-Wtautological-compare]
>         for (i = key->len - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>                                ~ ^  ~
>
>
> which looks a bit odd, especially since there is no way to break out of
> the loop and reach the final return statement, which has a comment to
> that it might be useful (equal).

Both of these looks like bugs - I will copy you on a patch (I don't
see a fix from you in patchwork). Thanks for reporting this.

Regards,
Simon