netdev - Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialize warning

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:13:43 -0500
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>,
        Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>,
        Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        Moni Shoua <monis@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialize warning

On 10/25/2016 12:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There is an old warning about mlx4_SW2HW_EQ_wrapper on x86:
> 
> ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c: In function ‘mlx4_SW2HW_EQ_wrapper’:
> ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c:3071:10: error: ‘eq’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The problem here is that gcc won't track the state of the variable
> across a spin_unlock. Moving the assignment out of the lock is
> safe here and avoids the warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks, applied.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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