linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pid: fix uninitialized var warnings

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Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:24:16 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        wsd_upstream <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pid: fix uninitialized var warnings

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 08:20:49PM +0800, Walter Wu wrote:
> Compiling with gcc-9.2.1 points out below warnings. Fix it.
> 
> kernel/pid.c: In function 'alloc_pid':
> kernel/pid.c:180:10: warning: 'retval' may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>

Thanks. A correct fix for this is already in my tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=10dab84caf400f2f5f8b010ebb0c7c4272ec5093
(Background is 
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=b26ebfe12f34f372cf041c6f801fa49c3fb382c5
 )

 Christian