linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: zoned: fix harmless maybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:51:36 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Shaun Tancheff <shaun@...cheff.com>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@...t.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: zoned: fix harmless maybe-uninitialized warning

On 10/24/2016 07:00 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:
>
> Arnd> The blkdev_report_zones produces a harmless warning when
> Arnd> -Wmaybe-uninitialized is set, after gcc gets a little confused
> Arnd> about the multiple 'goto' here:
>
> Arnd> block/blk-zoned.c: In function 'blkdev_report_zones':
> Arnd> block/blk-zoned.c:188:13: error: 'nz' may be used uninitialized in
> Arnd> this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> Arnd> Moving the assignment to nr_zones makes this a little simpler
> Arnd> while also avoiding the warning reliably. I'm removing the
> Arnd> extraneous initialization of 'int ret' in the same patch, as that
> Arnd> is semi-related and could cause an uninitialized use of that
> Arnd> variable to not produce a warning.
>
> Jens: Are you picking up Arnd's two fixes for the zoned code?

Yep, adding them now. Thanks Arnd.

-- 
Jens Axboe