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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that didn't apply cleanly either, so I'm just going to drop this
backported patch and wait for the submitter to fix it up and resend it.

thanks,

greg k-h