Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10???] fix build failure in nbd_read_reply_entry()

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 17/08/2017 18:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 August 2017 at 17:16, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 17/08/2017 18:14, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>> travis builds fail at HEAD at rc3 master with
>>>
>>>   block/nbd-client.c: In function ‘nbd_read_reply_entry’:
>>>   block/nbd-client.c:110:8: error: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>>>
>>> fix it by initializing 'ret' to 0
>>
>> This is a false positive, but it's understandably impossible for the
>> compiler to figure it out.
>>
>> Even though we disable -Werror on release builds, it may be worth fixing
>> this in 2.10 if it doesn't delay the release.  Peter, what do you think
>> about applying this on top of -rc3 without doing a fourth candidate?
> 
> I don't like doing releases which haven't had an rc,
> but we've had abbreviated "just a couple of days" rc-to-final
> cycles before.

It's just a matter of "looking unpolished".  It doesn't deserve -rc4,
not even for just a couple of days.

Paolo