From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix build warnings
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:20:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE4A4E7.80503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110531073824.GA17999@elte.hu>
On 05/31/2011 10:38 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Borislav Petkov<bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> > @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
> > gva_t addr, u32 access)
> > {
> > pt_element_t pte;
> > - pt_element_t __user *ptep_user;
> > + pt_element_t __user *uninitialized_var(ptep_user);
>
> Note that doing this is actually actively dangerous for two reasons.
>
>
<snip lots of good advice>
> Please fix it instead.
s/instead/in addition/; while all those changes are good, they are much
too large for 3.0. Let's push the simple fix for 3.0 and queue the
bigger refactoring to 3.1.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 9:46 KVM build warnings Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 10:14 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 12:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 20:11 ` [PATCH] kvm: Fix " Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 8:19 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-31 8:20 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-05-31 9:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 10:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-07 7:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-07 7:58 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-07 7:58 ` Avi Kivity
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