linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 232/294] dm bufio: hide bogus warning

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Date:   Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:03:02 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 232/294] dm bufio: hide bogus warning

3.16.50-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

mips-gcc-5.3 warns about correct code on linux-3.18 and earlier:

In file included from ../include/linux/blkdev.h:4:0,
                 from ../drivers/md/dm-bufio.h:12,
                 from ../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:9:
../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c: In function 'alloc_buffer':
../include/linux/sched.h:1975:56: warning: 'noio_flag' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO) | flags;
                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:325:11: note: 'noio_flag' was declared here

The warning disappeared on later kernels with this commit: be0c37c985ed
("MIPS: Rearrange PTE bits into fixed positions.")  I assume this only
happened because it changed some inlining decisions.

On 3.18.y, we can shut up the warning by adding an extra initialization.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static void *alloc_buffer_data(struct dm
 	 * as if GFP_NOIO was specified.
 	 */
 
+	noio_flag = 0;
 	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
 		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();