On 3/2/20 4:01 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
>
> fs/io_uring.c:4178:6: warning: variable 'mask' is used uninitialized
> whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> if (def->pollin)
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> fs/io_uring.c:4182:2: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> mask |= POLLERR | POLLPRI;
> ^~~~
> fs/io_uring.c:4178:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always
> true
> if (def->pollin)
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> fs/io_uring.c:4154:15: note: initialize the variable 'mask' to silence
> this warning
> __poll_t mask, ret;
> ^
> = 0
> 1 warning generated.
>
> io_op_defs has many definitions where pollin is not set so mask indeed
> might be uninitialized. Initialize it to zero and change the next
> assignment to |=, in case further masks are added in the future to avoid
> missing changing the assignment then.
>
> Fixes: d7718a9d25a6 ("io_uring: use poll driven retry for files that support it")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/916
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I noticed that for-next has been force pushed; if you want to squash
> this into the commit that it fixes (or fix it in a different way), feel
> free.
Great thanks, applied. I wonder why gcc doesn't warn about that...
--
Jens Axboe
