Re: linux-next: upstream tree build warnings

Stephen Rothwell
2009-04-23T11:55:55Z

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Hi Dave,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:24:03 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> 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.

The callers came in throught commit
0bde95690d65653e420d04856c5d5783155c747c ("virtio_net: Add support for
VLAN filtering in the hypervisor") which I assume came in throught the
net tree (it has you SOB on it). Committed Feb 5, 2009, went into Linus'
tree before 2.6.30-rc1.

scatterlist.h hasn't changed since July, 2008.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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