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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:58:05 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: arm64: silence -Wuninitialized-const-pointer
 warning
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 06:15:28PM -0700, 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.

Is clang-22 somehow now a supported kernel for the 6.1.y tree?  Last I
looked, Linus's tree doesn't even build properly for it, so why worry
about this one just yet?

> Silence the warning by initializing the struct.

Why not fix the compiler not to do this instead?  We hate doing foolish
work-arounds for broken compilers.

thanks,

greg k-h