netdev - Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix false-positive maybe-uninitialized warning

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:50:20 +0200
From:   Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Cc:     Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>,
        Shahar S Matityahu <shahar.s.matityahu@...el.com>,
        Lior Cohen <lior2.cohen@...el.com>,
        Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@...el.com>,
        Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix false-positive maybe-uninitialized warning

On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 21:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> With CONFIG_NO_AUTO_INLINE, we run into a silly warning when
> gcc fails to remember that n_profiles is constant across
> the function call to iwl_mvm_sar_set_profile:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c: In function
> 'iwl_mvm_sar_get_ewrd_table':
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c:746:9: error: 'ret' may
> be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Marking that function 'inline' avoids the warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---

Thanks! This has been applied in our internal tree and will reach the
mainline following our normal upstreaming process.

--
Cheers,
Luca.