On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:57:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > After enabling -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings, we get a false-postive > warning for shmem: > > mm/shmem.c: In function ‘shmem_getpage_gfp’: > include/linux/spinlock.h:332:21: error: ‘info’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] > > This can be easily avoided, since the correct 'info' pointer is known > at the time we first enter the function, so we can simply move the > initialization up. Moving it before the first label avoids the > warning and lets us remove two later initializations. > > Note that the function is so hard to read that it not only confuses > the compiler, but also most readers and without this patch it could\ > easily break if one of the 'goto's changed. > > Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2368133.html > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>