Re: perf: bench/sched-messaging.c:73:13: error: 'dummy' may be used uninitialized

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jul 15 2021 - 07:06:20 EST


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 05:32:17PM +0200, Anders Roxell wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 17:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:40:28PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > LKFT have noticed these warnings / errors when we have updated gcc version from
> > > gcc-9 to gcc-11 on stable-rc linux-5.4.y branch. I have provided the steps to
> > > reproduce in this email below.
> > >
> > > Following perf builds failed with gcc-11 with linux-5.4.y branch.
> > > - build-arm-gcc-11-perf
> > > - build-arm64-gcc-11-perf
> > > - build-i386-gcc-11-perf
> > > - build-x86-gcc-11-perf
> > >
> > > Build error log:
> > > --------------------
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > I imagine this is fixed in newer kernel versions, so if you could
> > provide the git ids of the patches needed to fix this up in 5.4, that
> > would be great!
>
> You were correct, I did a bisect [1] and found
> d493720581a6 ("perf bench: Fix 2 memory sanitizer warnings").
>
> commit d2c73501a767514b6c85c7feff9457a165d51057 upstream.
>
> Cherry picked it and I was able to build it on arm64 and x86.

Great, now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h