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x86/xen: Distribute switch variables for initialization
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Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
cannot be automatically initialized with compiler instrumentation (as
they are not part of any execution flow). With GCC's proposed automatic
stack variable initialization feature, this triggers a warning (and they
don't get initialized). Clang's automatic stack variable initialization
(via CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL=y) doesn't throw a warning, but it also
doesn't initialize such variables[1]. Note that these warnings (or silent
skipping) happen before the dead-store elimination optimization phase,
so even when the automatic initializations are later elided in favor of
direct initializations, the warnings remain.

To avoid these problems, move such variables into the "case" where
they're used or lift them up into the main function body.

arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c: In function ‘xen_write_msr_safe’:
arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c:904:12: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
  904 |   unsigned which;
      |            ^~~~~

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220062318.69299-1-keescook@chromium.org
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
[boris: made @which an 'unsigned int']
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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Kees Cook authored and Boris Ostrovsky committed Feb 20, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -896,14 +896,15 @@ static u64 xen_read_msr_safe(unsigned int msr, int *err)
static int xen_write_msr_safe(unsigned int msr, unsigned low, unsigned high)
{
int ret;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
unsigned int which;
u64 base;
#endif

ret = 0;

switch (msr) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
unsigned which;
u64 base;

case MSR_FS_BASE: which = SEGBASE_FS; goto set;
case MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE: which = SEGBASE_GS_USER; goto set;
case MSR_GS_BASE: which = SEGBASE_GS_KERNEL; goto set;
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