netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: frags: better deal with smp races

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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 17:31:41 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        soukjin.bae@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: frags: better deal with smp races



On 11/08/2018 05:02 PM, David Miller wrote:

> GCC is unwilling to see that all paths leading to that final return
> statement do in fact set 'fq' one way or another:
> 
> net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c: In function ‘inet_frag_find’:
> net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:224:9: warning: ‘fq’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This is with:
> 
> gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20181011 (Red Hat 8.2.1-4)
> 
> Please adjust your patch so that the warning is eliminated.
> 

Interesting, I will init *fq to NULL in v2, thanks.