linux-kernel - Re: [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted by warnings

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Message-ID: <20070718220739.GA8305@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:07:39 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, rolandd@...co.com, dwmw2@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [git patches 1/2] warnings: attack valid cases spotted by
	warnings

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>  Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:42:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> commit ae97fec3701a559929c3529e35417fab133a4d39
> >> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> >> Date:   Tue Jul 17 01:08:29 2007 -0400
> >>
> >>     drivers/usb/misc/auerswald: fix status check, remove redundant check
> >>         1) We should only set 'actual_length' output variable if usb 
> >> length is
> >>     known to be good.
> >>         2) No need to check actual_length for NULL.  The only caller 
> >> always
> >>     passes non-NULL value.
> >>         Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> > I have no objection to this patch at all, however it does not remove the
> > compiler warning :(
> 
>  The description doesn't say it removes a warning, so it doesn't :)
> 
>  You want to look at
> 
>  	drivers/*: mark variables with uninitialized_var()
> 
>  which was in posting "[git patches 2/2] warnings: use uninitialized_var()" 
>  and is now upstream commit a6343afb6e16b65b9f0b264f94f8207212e7e3ae

Ah, sorry, I just went for the first USB change entry, sorry about that
:)

And thanks for doing this, clean builds are good to have.

greg k-h
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