On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 11:10 -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:21:39PM -0800, Jason Low wrote: > > Compiling kernel/ causes warnings: > > > > ... ‘root’ may be used uninitialized in this function > > ... ‘root’ was declared here > > > > This isn't an issue since there is already logic to not use > > root if we goto out_unlock without setting root. > > > > Explicitly initialize root to NULL to suppress this so that we can > > focus on catching warnings that can potentially cause bigger issues. > > Which complier are you using?
Hi Tejun, one of the versions I am seeing this on is gcc 4.6.3. > The variable, AFAICS, is always set > before being deref'd and the function hasn't triggered spurious > warnings for quite a while with differing versions of gcc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
