diskfilter: Treat an unrecognized RAID level as an error
PATCH 1/1 diskfilter: Treat an unrecognized RAID level as an error
disk/diskfilter.c: In function 'grub_diskfilter_make_raid':disk/diskfilter.c:847:21: error: 'totsize' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
Perhaps my patch should use assert() instead of return NULL?
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Richard
diskfilter: Treat an unrecognized RAID level as an error
disk/diskfilter.c: In function 'grub_diskfilter_make_raid':disk/diskfilter.c:847:21: error: 'totsize' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
Perhaps this should be an assert() instead of return NULL?
=== modified file 'grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c'
grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c +3 -0
@@ -837,6 +837,9 @@ grub_diskfilter_make_raid (grub_size_t ucase 6 : totsize = (nmemb - level /3 ) * disk_size;break ; + +default : +return NULL ; } array =grub_diskfilter_get_vg_by_uuid (uuidlen, uuid);
Quoted 5 lines · Richard Laager
disk/diskfilter.c: In function 'grub_diskfilter_make_raid':disk/diskfilter.c:847:21: error: 'totsize' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]Perhaps my patch should use
assert()instead of return NULL?
We don't use assert since assert failures are usually not fatal. And failing to boot just because some otherwise unused disk has a RAID-9 isn't reasonable.
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Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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Quoted 5 lines · Richard Laager
disk/diskfilter.c: In function 'grub_diskfilter_make_raid':disk/diskfilter.c:847:21: error: 'totsize' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]Perhaps my patch should use
assert()instead of return NULL?We don't use assert since assert failures are usually not fatal. And failing to boot just because some otherwise unused disk has a RAID-9 isn't reasonable.
Noted. I see now that Grégoire Sutre already submitted the same fix. I don't know how I missed that mail before. Sorry for the noise. At least I learned about GRUB's take on assert().
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Richard