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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2022-04-29 01:04:07 +0000
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-06-20 06:21:36 -0400
commit943dfea8f166d62657057170dbe8667ec96247ca (patch)
tree02aa86bdc95e36b5e2a4a854169a7b91fd2b1e7c /virt
parent5d49f08c2e08c1f0de1bb0f2e1307ec969451729 (diff)
downloadlinux-943dfea8f166d62657057170dbe8667ec96247ca.tar.gz
KVM: Do not zero initialize 'pfn' in hva_to_pfn()
Drop the unnecessary initialization of the local 'pfn' variable in
hva_to_pfn().  First and foremost, '0' is not an invalid pfn, it's a
perfectly valid pfn on most architectures.  I.e. if hva_to_pfn() were to
return an "uninitializd" pfn, it would actually be interpeted as a legal
pfn by most callers.

Second, hva_to_pfn() can't return an uninitialized pfn as hva_to_pfn()
explicitly sets pfn to an error value (or returns an error value directly)
if a helper returns failure, and all helpers set the pfn on success.

The zeroing of 'pfn' was introduced by commit 2fc843117d64 ("KVM:
reorganize hva_to_pfn"), probably to avoid "uninitialized variable"
warnings on statements that return pfn.  However, no compiler seems
to produce them, making the initialization unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220429010416.2788472-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 04196096f9e4..5b8ae83e09d7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2609,7 +2609,7 @@ kvm_pfn_t hva_to_pfn(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
 		     bool write_fault, bool *writable)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-	kvm_pfn_t pfn = 0;
+	kvm_pfn_t pfn;
 	int npages, r;
 
 	/* we can do it either atomically or asynchronously, not both */