Patch "dm bufio: hide bogus warning" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm bufio: hide bogus warning

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dm-bufio-hide-bogus-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From arnd@arndb.de  Thu Apr 27 11:57:34 2017
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:41:10 +0200
Subject: dm bufio: hide bogus warning
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-ID: <20170421134212.2727744-1-arnd@arndb.de>

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

mips-gcc-5.3 warns about correct code on linux-3.18 and earlier:

In file included from ../include/linux/blkdev.h:4:0,
                 from ../drivers/md/dm-bufio.h:12,
                 from ../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:9:
../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c: In function 'alloc_buffer':
../include/linux/sched.h:1975:56: warning: 'noio_flag' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO) | flags;
                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
../drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:325:11: note: 'noio_flag' was declared here

The warning disappeared on later kernels with this commit: be0c37c985ed
("MIPS: Rearrange PTE bits into fixed positions.")  I assume this only
happened because it changed some inlining decisions.

On 3.18.y, we can shut up the warning by adding an extra initialization.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static void *alloc_buffer_data(struct dm
 	 * as if GFP_NOIO was specified.
 	 */
 
+	noio_flag = 0;
 	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
 		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-3.18/acpi-power-avoid-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-3.18/gadgetfs-fix-uninitialized-variable-in-error-handling.patch
queue-3.18/clk-at91-usb-fix-determine_rate-prototype-again.patch
queue-3.18/arm-psci-fix-header-file.patch
queue-3.18/dm-bufio-hide-bogus-warning.patch