linux-kernel - [PATCH linux-next v2] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:50:26 -0700
From:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH linux-next v2] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

drivers/md/dm-raid.c:453:53: warning: 'rebuilds_per_group' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
drivers/md/dm-raid.c:383:11: note: 'rebuilds_per_group' was declared here

It is impossible that rebuilds_per_group could be used before set, but set
it to 0 anyways to silence GCC warnings.

Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
---

v2 - Added GCC comment. Update commit log with a more definite explanation.

As Neil has pointed out, https://lwn.net/Articles/529954/ indicates
uninitialized_var() is going away.

 drivers/md/dm-raid.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
index 9d6bf19..1dbc341 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ static int validate_region_size(struct raid_set *rs, unsigned long region_size)
 static int validate_raid_redundancy(struct raid_set *rs)
 {
 	unsigned i, rebuild_cnt = 0;
-	unsigned rebuilds_per_group, copies, d;
+	unsigned rebuilds_per_group = 0; /* GCC 4.6.3 */
+	unsigned copies, d;
 	unsigned group_size, last_group_start;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < rs->md.raid_disks; i++)
-- 
1.7.9.5

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