netdev - Re: Compile-time warnings on mlx4/net-next

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:38:51 -0200
From:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Compile-time warnings on mlx4/net-next

On 15-01-2015 11:20, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On 1/15/2015 3:05 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
>> Hi Or,
>>
>> Building net-next.git from today, 4e7a84b1a5bc8094522fd11f628b00c4b4e78b4d,
>> I'm seeing these warnings on mlx4:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c: In function
>> ‘mlx4_config_dev_retrieval’:
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c:2136:12: warning:
>> ‘config_dev.rx_checksum_val’ may be used uninitialized in this function
>> [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>    csum_mask = (config_dev.rx_checksum_val >>
>> CONFIG_DEV_RX_CSUM_MODE_PORT2_BIT_OFFSET) &
>>              ^
> BTW  in net-next.git this is line 2155 .. it's 2136 on net.git

sure?
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next/+/4e7a84b1a5bc8094522fd11f628b00c4b4e78b4d/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
or
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next/+/master/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
says line 2136 for net-next too

>> In file included from include/linux/swab.h:4:0,
>>                   from include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:12,
>>                   from include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:4,
>>                   from ./arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/byteorder.h:4,
>>                   from include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h:5,
>>                   from ./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:504,
>>                   from include/linux/bitops.h:36,
>>                   from include/linux/kernel.h:10,
>>                   from include/linux/skbuff.h:17,
>>                   from include/linux/if_ether.h:23,
>>                   from include/linux/etherdevice.h:25,
>>                   from drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c:35:
>> include/uapi/linux/swab.h:106:23: warning: ‘config_dev.vxlan_udp_dport’ may
>> be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>    (__builtin_constant_p((__u16)(x)) ? \
>>                         ^
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c:2114:25: note:
>> ‘config_dev.vxlan_udp_dport’ was declared here
>>    struct mlx4_config_dev config_dev;
>>                           ^
>>
>> Do you see them too?
>
> using $ make W=1 -j 20 SUBDIRS=./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 with gcc
> 4.8.2 I don't see that, but I'll look there,
> thanks for the report.

Aye, thanks.

   Marcelo

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