When a negative timeout value is passed to epoll the 'slack' variable is currently uninitialized: fs/eventpoll.c: In function âep_pollâ: fs/eventpoll.c:1119: warning: âslackâ may be used uninitialized in this function In this case a NULL pointer is passed to schedule_hrtimeout_range() specifying an infinite timeout. The current implementation of schedule_hrtimeout_range() does not use slack in this case, but we should still initialize slack to 0 in case future implementations use it. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 8cf0724..c24a032 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events, { int res, eavail, timed_out = 0; unsigned long flags; - long slack; + long slack = 0; wait_queue_t wait; struct timespec end_time; ktime_t expires, *to = NULL; -- 1.7.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html