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

[Sunil Muthuswamy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of David Miller
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 1:55 PM
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; sashal@xxxxxxxxxx; Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hvsock: fix epollout hang from race condition
> 
> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:22:32 +0000
> 
> > These warnings are not introduced by this patch from Sunil.
> >
> > I'm not sure why I didn't notice these warnings before.
> > Probably my gcc version is not new eought?
> >
> > Actually these warnings are bogus, as I checked the related functions,
> > which may confuse the compiler's static analysis.
> >
> > I'm going to make a patch to initialize the pointers to NULL to suppress
> > the warnings. My patch will be based on the latest's net.git + this patch
> > from Sunil.
> 
> Sunil should then resubmit his patch against something that has the
> warning suppression patch applied.

David, Dexuan's patch to suppress the warnings seems to be applied now
to the 'net' branch. Can we please get this patch applied as well?