From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: linux-next: upstream tree build warnings Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:53:10 +0930 Message-ID: <200904262153.10948.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <20090423163847.200f227e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090423.002403.74400050.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090423.002403.74400050.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, alex.williamson@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:54:03 pm David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Rothwell > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:38:47 +1000 > > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig gcc4.4.0) produced these > > warnings: > > > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c: In function 'virnet_vlan_rx_add_vid': > > include/linux/scatterlist.h:57: warning: 'sg' is used uninitialized in this function > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c:746: note: 'sg' was declared here > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c: In function 'virnet_vlan_rx_kill_vid': > > include/linux/scatterlist.h:57: warning: 'sg' is used uninitialized in this function > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c:758: note: 'sg' was declared here > > > > in each case, sg is uninitialised when its address is passed to > > sg_set_buf() which passes it to gs_set_page() which passes it to > > sg_assign_page() which dereferences it (to use ->page_link). > > I wonder if this is a side effect of changes that went in via Rusty's > tree? I don't remember touching this driver in a while. AFAICT gcc is right: it should be sg_init_one(). It doesn't currently *matter*, since no virtio add_buf implementation does that chained-sg crap (I had a patch once, but it made me barf) and so the uninitialized lower three bits are ignored. Alex, if you agree, patch welcome... Rusty.