netdev - re: macvtap: convert to SKB paged frag API.

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Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:05:28 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: re: macvtap: convert to SKB paged frag API.

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:17 +0100, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> There is a problem in d1b08284ade "macvtap: convert to SKB paged frag
> API."  It removes the initialization of "f" in zerocopy_sg_from_iovec()
> which breaks it and causes a compile warning:
> drivers/net/macvtap.c:509:5: warning: ‘f’ may be used uninitialized
> 	in this function [-Wuninitialized]

Not just a warning but an actual bug -- I'll post a patch.

Thanks for the heads up!

Ian.

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