Re: dm-bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Mar 07 2018 - 03:48:13 EST
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06 2018 at 4:33pm -0500,
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 22 2018 at 10:56am -0500,
>> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Mikulas already sent a fix for this:
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10211631/
>> >
>> > But I like yours a bit better, though I'll likely move the declaration
>> > of 'noio_flag' temporary inside the conditional.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I'll get this fixed up shortly, thanks.
>>
>> I see the fix made it into linux-next on the same day, but the build bots still
>> report the warning for mainline kernels and now also for stable kernels
>> that got a backport of the patch that introduced it on arm64.
>>
>> I assume you had not planned to send it for mainline, any chance you
>> could change that and send it as a bugfix with a 'Cc:
>> stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' tag to restore a clean build?
>
> I did/do plan to send to Linus this week.
>
> But I've updated the commit header to include the CC: stable like you
> asked.
Got it, thanks a lot, that brings us down to two kernelci warnings for 4.16
and one for 4.15-stable then.
Arnd