linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] io_uring: initialize vairable "sqe" to silence build warning

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Message-ID: <5b78c30d-26de-4e49-9bfa-121c9f40b4e0@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:26:22 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@...il.com>
Cc: io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 regressions@...ts.linux.dev, "kernelci . org bot" <bot@...nelci.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: initialize vairable "sqe" to silence build
 warning

On 10/22/25 9:07 AM, Mallikarjun Thammanavar wrote:
> clang-17 compiler throws build error when [-Werror,-Wuninitialized] are enabled
> error: variable 'sqe' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]

Already fixed, and as Greg mentioned, this may silence the warning but now it'll
cause a NULL pointer deref instead...

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Jens Axboe