Re: [PATCH 1/1] cgroup: fix var may be used uninitialized warning

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>]

Hello Tejun,

On 03/03/2015 02:46 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:59:47AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> When building cgroup, GCC warns that the root variable
>> may be used uninitialized in the cgroup_mount function.
>> 
>> kernel/cgroup.c: In function ‘cgroup_mount’:
>> kernel/cgroup.c:1886:13: warning: ‘root’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>> kernel/cgroup.c:1742:22: note: ‘root’ was declared here
>> 
>> This can never happen because if the struct cgroup_root
>> can't be allocated, ret is set to -ENOMEM and the error
>> returned so the code using root is not reachable. But
>> set root to NULL just to silence the compiler warning.
> 
> Which compiler are you on?
>

Yeah, I noticed that I was using a pretty old 4.7.2 GCC on
that machine and the warning indeed is not seen with 4.9.1.

Sorry for the noise...

> Thanks.
>

Best regard,
Javier