On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 09:16:50AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:01 AM Nathan Chancellor > <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is Clang's version of GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized. Up to this > > point, it has not been used because -Wuninitialized has been disabled, > > which also turns off -Wsometimes-uninitialized, meaning that we miss out > > on finding some bugs [1]. In my experience, it appears to be more > > accurate than GCC and catch some things that GCC can't. > > > > All of these warnings have now been fixed in -next across arm, arm64, > > and x86_64 defconfig/allyesconfig so this should be enabled for everyone > > to prevent more from easily creeping in. > > > > As of next-20190429: > > > > $ git log --oneline --grep="sometimes-uninitialized" | wc -l > > 45 > > > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/86649ee4-9794-77a3-502c-f4cd10019c36@xxxxxx/ > > > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/381 > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > Masahiro, I am not sure how you want to handle merging this with regards > > to all of the patches floating around in -next but I wanted to send this > > out to let everyone know this is ready to be turned on. > > > > Arnd, are there many remaning -Wsometimes-uninitialized warnings in > > randconfigs? > > No, I don't see any with the patches that I submitted. I haven't checked > if there are any that still need to get merged into linux-next though. > > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn > > index 768306add591..f4332981ea85 100644 > > --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn > > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn > > @@ -72,5 +72,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format) > > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare) > > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-zero-length) > > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, uninitialized) > > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wsometimes-uninitialized) > > endif > > endif > > This doesn't look right. Shouldn't you remove the line that turns off > -Wuninitilized > instead of adding only -Wsometimes-uninitialized? Well, there are still some outstanding issues with -Wuninitialized right? Like with DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_ONSTACK? I'd rather not add warnings to the build but if you feel strongly, we could turn it on then fix them after. Nathan > > If we warn about the instances that may or may not be wrong, we should > also warn about those that are provably wrong. > > Arnd