linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

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Date:   Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:54:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     decui@...rosoft.com
Cc:     sunilmut@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
        sthemmin@...rosoft.com, sashal@...nel.org, mikelley@...rosoft.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:22:32 +0000

> These warnings are not introduced by this patch from Sunil.
> 
> I'm not sure why I didn't notice these warnings before.  
> Probably my gcc version is not new eought? 
> 
> Actually these warnings are bogus, as I checked the related functions,
> which may confuse the compiler's static analysis.
> 
> I'm going to make a patch to initialize the pointers to NULL to suppress
> the warnings. My patch will be based on the latest's net.git + this patch
> from Sunil.

Sunil should then resubmit his patch against something that has the
warning suppression patch applied.