netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mvpp2: Initialize link in mvpp2_isr_handle_{xlg,gmac

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Message-ID: <20200911082236.7dfb7937@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:22:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, andrew@...n.ch,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mvpp2: Initialize link in
 mvpp2_isr_handle_{xlg,gmac_internal}

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:11:58 +0100 Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 05:31:42PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Ah great, that is indeed cleaner, thank you for letting me know!  
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure why gcc didn't find that. Strangely, the 0-day bot
> seems to have only picked up on it with clang, not gcc.

May be similar to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/25/1092

Recent GCC is so bad at catching uninitialized vars I was considering
build testing with GCC8 :/