RE: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Sat Jun 15 2019 - 13:06:08 EST


> From: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:23 AM
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ...
> > It looks a simple inline assembly code can confuse gcc. I'm not sure if I should
> > report a bug for gcc...
> >
> > I posted a patch to suppress these bogus warnings just now. The Subject is:
> >
> > [PATCH net] hv_sock: Suppress bogus "may be used uninitialized" warnings

David, as I described, these warnings are spurious and can be safely ignored.

Please consider not applying my two-line patch to avoid merge conflict
with Sunil's another patch in net-next.git.

> Yes, these warnings are not specific to this patch. And, additionally these
> should already addressed in the commit ...
> I was trying to avoid making the same changes here to avoid merge
> conflicts when 'net-next' merges with 'net' next.

Yeah, I agree.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan