Patch "perf/x86: Shut up false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    perf/x86: Shut up false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

to the 4.9-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:
     perf-x86-shut-up-false-positive-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 11d8b05855f3749bcb6c57e2c4052921b9605c77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:52:59 +0200
Subject: perf/x86: Shut up false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit 11d8b05855f3749bcb6c57e2c4052921b9605c77 upstream.

The intialization function checks for various failure scenarios, but
unfortunately the compiler gets a little confused about the possible
combinations, leading to a false-positive build warning when
-Wmaybe-uninitialized is set:

  arch/x86/events/core.c: In function ‘init_hw_perf_events’:
  arch/x86/events/core.c:264:3: warning: ‘reg_fail’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  arch/x86/events/core.c:264:3: warning: ‘val_fail’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     pr_err(FW_BUG "the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR %x is %Lx)\n",

We can't actually run into this case, so this shuts up the warning
by initializing the variables to a known-invalid state.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-2-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9392595/
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/events/core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ static void release_pmc_hardware(void) {
 
 static bool check_hw_exists(void)
 {
-	u64 val, val_fail, val_new= ~0;
-	int i, reg, reg_fail, ret = 0;
+	u64 val, val_fail = -1, val_new= ~0;
+	int i, reg, reg_fail = -1, ret = 0;
 	int bios_fail = 0;
 	int reg_safe = -1;
 


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

queue-4.9/kasan-rework-kconfig-settings.patch
queue-4.9/tw5864-use-dev_warn-instead-of-warn-to-shut-up-warning.patch
queue-4.9/perf-x86-shut-up-false-positive-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-4.9/go7007-add-media_camera_support-dependency.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-advansys-fix-build-warning-for-pci-n.patch
queue-4.9/video-fbdev-via-remove-possibly-unused-variables.patch
queue-4.9/drm-exynos-mark-pm-functions-as-__maybe_unused.patch
queue-4.9/binfmt_elf-compat-avoid-unused-function-warning.patch
queue-4.9/idle-i7300-add-pci-dependency.patch
queue-4.9/cw1200-fix-bogus-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-4.9/x86-build-silence-the-build-with-make-s.patch
queue-4.9/gpio-xgene-mark-pm-functions-as-__maybe_unused.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-add-x86_local_apic-dependency.patch
queue-4.9/reiserfs-avoid-a-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-advansys-fix-uninitialized-data-access.patch
queue-4.9/drm-i915-fix-intel_backlight_device_register-declaration.patch
queue-4.9/spi-bcm-qspi-shut-up-warning-about-cfi-header-inclusion.patch
queue-4.9/asoc-ux500-add-module_license-tag.patch
queue-4.9/x86-microcode-amd-change-load_microcode_amd-s-param-to-bool-to-fix-preemptibility-bug.patch
queue-4.9/video-fbdev-mmp-add-module_license.patch
queue-4.9/usb-phy-msm-add-regulator-dependency.patch
queue-4.9/arm64-dts-add-cooling-cells-to-cpu-nodes.patch
queue-4.9/vmxnet3-prevent-building-with-64k-pages.patch
queue-4.9/x86-platform-add-pci-dependency-for-punit_atom_debug.patch
queue-4.9/alsa-hda-ca0132-fix-possible-null-pointer-use.patch
queue-4.9/thermal-fix-intel_soc_dts_iosf_core-dependencies.patch
queue-4.9/arm64-define-bug-instruction-without-config_bug.patch
queue-4.9/arm64-sunxi-always-enable-reset-controller.patch
queue-4.9/tc358743-fix-register-i2c_rd-wr-functions.patch
queue-4.9/security-keys-big_key-requires-config_crypto.patch
queue-4.9/drm-i915-hide-unused-intel_panel_set_backlight-function.patch
queue-4.9/x86-fpu-math-emu-fix-possible-uninitialized-variable-use.patch
queue-4.9/arm-8743-1-bl_switcher-add-module_license-tag.patch
queue-4.9/em28xx-only-use-mt9v011-if-camera-support-is-enabled.patch
queue-4.9/arm64-fix-warning-about-swapper_pg_dir-overflow.patch
queue-4.9/shmem-avoid-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-4.9/input-tca8418_keypad-hide-gcc-4.9-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch
queue-4.9/drm-nouveau-hide-gcc-4.9-wmaybe-uninitialized.patch
queue-4.9/x86-add-multiuser-dependency-for-kvm.patch
queue-4.9/isdn-eicon-reduce-stack-size-of-sig_ind-function.patch