selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper
authorThomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:39:02 +0000 (07:39 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 08:57:38 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
commit9f15e0f9ef514b8e1a80707931f6d07362e8ebc4
tree21f657f7d24a031d89e6145813582bf4171322b5
parent437054b1bbe11be87ab0a522b8ccbae3f785c642
selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper

The _rval register variable is meant to be an output operand of the asm
statement but is instead used as input operand.
clang 20.1 notices this and triggers -Wuninitialized warnings:

tools/testing/selftests/timers/auxclock.c:154:10: error: variable '_rval' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
  154 |                 return VDSO_CALL(self->vdso_clock_gettime64, 2, clockid, ts);
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tools/testing/selftests/timers/../vDSO/vdso_call.h:59:10: note: expanded from macro 'VDSO_CALL'
   59 |                 : "r" (_rval)                                           \
      |                        ^~~~~
tools/testing/selftests/timers/auxclock.c:154:10: note: variable '_rval' is declared here
tools/testing/selftests/timers/../vDSO/vdso_call.h:47:2: note: expanded from macro 'VDSO_CALL'
   47 |         register long _rval asm ("r3");                                 \
      |         ^

It seems the list of input and output operands have been switched around.
However as the argument registers are not always initialized they can not
be marked as pure inputs as that would trigger -Wuninitialized warnings.
Adding _rval as another input and output operand does also not work as it
would collide with the existing _r3 variable.

Instead reuse _r3 for both the argument and the return value.

Fixes: 6eda706a535c ("selftests: vDSO: fix the way vDSO functions are called for powerpc")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250812-vdso-tests-fixes-v2-1-90f499dd35f8@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202506180223.BOOk5jDK-lkp@intel.com/
tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_call.h