Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: avoid bogus -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 16:46:56 EST


On Monday, October 24, 2016 8:06:42 PM CEST Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> > index d4ad672b905b..88d8d292677b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> > @@ -815,29 +815,33 @@ static void prep_umr_unreg_wqe(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev,
> > umrwr->mkey = key;
> > }
> >
> > -static struct ib_umem *mr_umem_get(struct ib_pd *pd, u64 start, u64 length,
> > - int access_flags, int *npages,
> > - int *page_shift, int *ncont, int *order)
> > +static int mr_umem_get(struct ib_pd *pd, u64 start, u64 length,
> > + int access_flags, struct ib_umem ** umem,
>
> I wonder if checkpatch does differentiate between "struct ib_umem ** umem"
> and "struct ib_umem **umem". According to coding style, the second is preferable.

It was unintended, I'll send a v2 patch in a minute.

Arnd