linux-kernel - Re: dm-bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:33:46 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Aliaksei Karaliou <akaraliou.dev@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dm-bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22 2018 at 10:56am -0500,
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

>
> Mikulas already sent a fix for this:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10211631/
>
> But I like yours a bit better, though I'll likely move the declaration
> of 'noio_flag' temporary inside the conditional.
>
> Anyway, I'll get this fixed up shortly, thanks.

I see the fix made it into linux-next on the same day, but the build bots still
report the warning for mainline kernels and now also for stable kernels
that got a backport of the patch that introduced it on arm64.

I assume you had not planned to send it for mainline, any chance you
could change that and send it as a bugfix with a 'Cc:
stable@...r.kernel.org' tag to restore a clean build?

       Arnd