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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Build failures in stable queues (4.4.y and later)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:19:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831201905.GA25259@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180831200728.GB3505@kroah.com>

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 01:07:28PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 08:47:59AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > One more build failure in v4.9.y.queue:
> > 
> > 
> > Build reference: v4.9.124-64-g6d66e98
> > gcc version: sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.3.0
> > 
> > Building sparc32:allmodconfig ... passed
> > Building sparc32:defconfig ... failed
> > --------------
> > Error log:
> > 
> > arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c: In function 'pcibios_fixup_bus':
> > arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c:647:8: error: 'cmd' may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> That is really odd as there is no patch in the queue that touches this
> file.  Could this have been caused by an older release?
> 

Ah, yes, sorry. I had added sparc32:defconfig recently since
sparc32:allmodconfig no longer builds in mainline. The fix is
commit 2dc77533f1e4 ("sparc: kernel/pcic: silence gcc 7.x
warning in pcibios_fixup_bus()"). The patch applies cleanly
to v4.9.y and fixes the problem.

Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-31 13:47 Build failures in stable queues (4.4.y and later) Guenter Roeck
2018-08-31 14:57 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-31 15:47   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-31 20:07     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-31 20:19       ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2018-08-31 20:22         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-31 15:58   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-31 19:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-31 20:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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