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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Khushil Dep <khushil.dep@help.basilica.co.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>,
	akpm <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:48:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106184810.GR3389@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490601061041y532cb797u6d106f03625d3daa@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 06 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> gcc is right to warn in the sense that it doesn't know if
> bvec_alloc_bs() will read or write into idx when its address is passed

The function is right there, on top of bio_alloc_bioset(). It's even
inlined. gcc has absolutely no reason to complain.

> to it. But since we know that bvec_alloc_bs() only reads from it after

bio_alloc_bioset() you mean.

> having assigned a value we know that gcc's warning is wrong, idx can
> never *actually* be used uninitialized.

Indeed, that's the whole point. For the original submitter, you are not
the first to submit this. See archives for basically the same thread as
this one...

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 15:48 [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix Khushil Dep
2006-01-06 18:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 18:48   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-06 18:53     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 18:58     ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2006-01-06 19:04       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-06 19:05       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 19:33     ` Zan Lynx
2006-01-06 19:56       ` Al Viro
2006-01-07 12:22         ` Peter Osterlund
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 15:07 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2006-01-06 15:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-06 15:39 ` Al Viro
2006-01-06 22:43   ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-06 22:52     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 23:13       ` Daniel Barkalow

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