netdev - Re: [PATCH, net-next 2/2] bpf: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 00:37:03 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, net-next 2/2] bpf: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

On 05/25/2018 11:33 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The stack_map_get_build_id_offset() function is too long for gcc to track
> whether 'work' may or may not be initialized at the end of it, leading
> to a false-positive warning:
> 
> kernel/bpf/stackmap.c: In function 'stack_map_get_build_id_offset':
> kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:334:13: error: 'work' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This removes the 'in_nmi_ctx' flag and uses the state of that variable
> itself to see if it got initialized.
> 
> Fixes: bae77c5eb5b2 ("bpf: enable stackmap with build_id in nmi context")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied to bpf-next, thanks Arnd!