Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > btw., i get the following build warning:
> > 
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c: In function 'scsi_free_sgtable':
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: warning: 'index' may be used uninitialized in this function
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: note: 'index' was declared here
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: warning: 'index' may be used uninitialized in this function
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: note: 'index' was declared here
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c: In function 'scsi_alloc_sgtable':
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: warning: 'index' may be used uninitialized in this function
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:708: note: 'index' was declared here
> > 
> > not sure it matters.
> 
> Hmm, I don't see them here (gcc 4.2.1). Must be the BUG(), does it go 
> away if you add a index = -1 in the default: case? Just to be 
> absolutely sure...

well if i initialize the variable then of course the warning goes away
:)

NOTE: i get the same warning even without the BUG_ON() patch, and 
without your other fix patch as well. I'm using gcc 4.2.2. (Do you get 
the warning if you pick up the config i sent you earlier today?)

	Ingo