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Message-ID: <0b2e2708-b658-1640-1ebd-4c84c3552714@roeck-us.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:01:55 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/591] 6.1.39-rc1 review
On 7/16/23 16:40, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 14:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.39 release.
>> There are 591 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:48:07 +0000.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
[ ... ]
> We're seeing build failures on i386 and x86 with Clang:
> -----8<-----
> /builds/linux/block/blk-cgroup.c:1238:6: error: variable 'ret' is used
> uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (init_blkcg_llists(blkcg))
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /builds/linux/block/blk-cgroup.c:1288:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> return ret;
> ^~~
> /builds/linux/block/blk-cgroup.c:1238:2: note: remove the 'if' if its
> condition is always false
> if (init_blkcg_llists(blkcg))
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /builds/linux/block/blk-cgroup.c:1223:33: note: initialize the
> variable 'ret' to silence this warning
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *ret;
> ^
> = NULL
> 1 error generated.
> ----->8-----
>
> More info to follow soon.
>
Caused by 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()")
which is missing its prerequisite b5a9adcbd5dc ("blk-cgroup: Return
-ENOMEM directly in blkcg_css_alloc() error path"). With three Fixup:
patches following, it is one of those patches where I wonder if it
is worth the trouble.
Guenter
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