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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:52:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130403195226.GC4667@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304031530.52712.arnd@arndb.de>

On Wed, Apr 03 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions
> that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether
> that value was set or not.
> 
> block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot':
> block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive,
> writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has
> an undefined result, rather than returning an error.

Huh indeed, thanks Arnd. Queued up.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-03 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 15:30 [PATCH] block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-03 19:52 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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