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Re: [PATCH] dax: use correct dev_t value

From Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] dax: use correct dev_t value
Date 2016-09-08 17:10 +0200
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On Thursday, September 8, 2016 7:56:31 AM CEST Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > The dev_t variable in devm_create_dax_dev() is used before it's
> > first set:
> >
> > drivers/dax/dax.c: In function 'devm_create_dax_dev':
> > drivers/dax/dax.c:205:39: error: 'dev_t' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> >   inode = iget5_locked(dax_superblock, hash_32(devt + DAXFS_MAGIC, 31),
> >                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/dax/dax.c:688:8: note: 'dev_t' was declared here
> >
> > This reorders the code to how it looks correct to me.
> >
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Strange, I don't see this error with gcc-5.3.1, I assume 0day missed
> it for a similar reason?

No, the warning is disabled by now since 6e8d666e9253 ("Disable
"maybe-uninitialized" warning globally"), which I have reverted
locally.

You can also build with -Wmaybe-uninitialized, but that causes
many false positives if any of these options are enabled:

CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL

I'm still trying to come up with a way to get the warning to
be useful again without annoying Linus too much.

	Arnd

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[PATCH] dax: use correct dev_t value Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-09-08 16:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dax: use correct dev_t value Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-09-08 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] dax: use correct dev_t value Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-09-08 17:10 +0200

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