Re: [PATCH -mm] drivers/md/: Shut up uninitialized variable warnings

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Satyam Sharma wrote:
drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c: In function ‘persistent_read_metadata’:
drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c:452: warning: ‘new_snapshot’ may be used uninitialized in this function

drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: In function ‘ctl_ioctl’:
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1407: warning: ‘param’ may be used uninitialized in this function

[ For these, I'd like to especially add -- shame on you, gcc! ]

drivers/md/dm-table.c: In function ‘dm_get_device’:
drivers/md/dm-table.c:472: warning: ‘dev’ may be used uninitialized in this function

are all verified to be bogus warnings. Let's shut them up.

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 drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c |    3 ++-
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c |    2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-table.c |    2 +-
 3 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletion(-)

same comment as with the last uninit'd var patch: these markers should be used sparingly. Try it on multiple compiler versions, see if it's a new behavior.

Quite realistically, you might actually be finding gcc bugs, implying the proper path is to file a gcc bug report (and they are _very_ diligent about handling these, its impressive) rather than to patch the Linux kernel.

Overall, for any uninitialized_var() patch, we need more info on platform/compiler version/analysis methods/etc.

	Jeff



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