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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:42:36 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

Stephen,

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:39:55 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> and the below proves it:
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
>> index e133da303a98..a9151884bc85 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
>> @@ -165,8 +165,13 @@ arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, int oparg, int *oval, u32 __user *uaddr)
>>  	preempt_enable();
>>  #endif
>>  
>> -	if (!ret)
>> -		*oval = oldval;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Store unconditionally. If ret != 0 the extra store is the least
>> +	 * of the worries but GCC cannot figure out that __futex_atomic_op()
>> +	 * is either setting ret to -EFAULT or storing the old value in
>> +	 * oldval which results in a uninitialized warning at the call site.
>> +	 */
>> +	*oval = oldval;
>>  
>>  	return ret;
>>  }
>> 
>> I think that's the right thing to do anyway. The conditional is pointless.
>
> Thanks for the analysis.
>
> I am still getting this warning, now from Linus' tree builds.

Yeah. Just noticed that both of us failed to CC the arm folks. :(

Let me send out a proper patch.

Thanks,

        tglx