Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Initialize root in cgroup_mount

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jan 27 2015 - 13:18:22 EST


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:46:36AM -0800, Jason Low wrote:
> 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:
> > >
> > > ... ârootâ may be used uninitialized in this function
> > > ... ârootâ 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.

Can you plesae try something newer? gcc for a while had trouble with
these spurious warnings. 4.6.2 is 3+ years old now.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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