Re: [PATCH 6.1.y RESEND] KVM: arm64: silence -Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 12:53:58PM -0800, Justin Stitt wrote:
> Quick correction:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 12:50:11PM -0800, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > A new warning in Clang 22 [1] complains that @clidr passed to
> > get_clidr_el1() is an uninitialized const pointer. get_clidr_el1()
> > doesn't really care since it casts away the const-ness anyways.
> > 
> > Silence the warning by initializing the struct.
> > 
> > This patch won't apply to anything past v6.1 as this code section was
> > reworked in Commit 7af0c2534f4c ("KVM: arm64: Normalize cache
> > configuration"). There is no upstream equivalent so this patch only
> > needs to be applied (stable only) to 6.1.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 7c8c5e6a9101e ("arm64: KVM: system register handling")
> > Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/00dacf8c22f065cb52efb14cd091d441f19b319e [1]
> > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
> > ---
> > Resending this with Nathan's RB tag, an updated commit log and better
> > recipients from checkpatch.pl.
> 
> My usage of $ b4 trailers must've not been correct because this 6.1
> version didn't pick up Nathan's RB tag. Whoops! Hopefully whoever picks
> this up can add that for me :)

Looks like you resent the first iteration of this change [1] instead of
the second [2], hence why 'b4 trailers -u' did not work, since I never
reviewed the first iteration after Marc rejected it :)

Your 5.15 resend looks correct though.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20250724-b4-clidr-unint-const-ptr-v1-1-67c4d620b6b6@google.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728-stable-disable-unit-ptr-warn-v1-1-958be9b66520@google.com/

Cheers,
Nathan