Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/291] 6.1.135-rc1 review

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, at 15:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 07:01:02PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>> 
>> ## Build error:
>> net/sched/act_mirred.c:265:6: error: variable 'is_redirect' is used
>> uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
>> [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>>   265 |         if (unlikely(!(dev->flags & IFF_UP)) ||
>> !netif_carrier_ok(dev)) {
>>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Odd this isn't showing up in newer releases, as this is an old commit
> and nothing has changed in this file since then (it showed up in 6.8.)
>
> Is there some follow-up commit somewhere that I'm missing that resolved
> this issue?

I think the difference is commit 16085e48cb48 ("net/sched: act_mirred:
Create function tcf_mirred_to_dev and improve readability") from 
v6.8, which adds the initialization that 166c2c8a6a4d ("net/sched:
act_mirred: don't override retval if we already lost the skb")
relies on.

      Arnd