Stephen, Ingo,
CC'ing David.
On 14.12.2016 08:24, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
>> produced this warning:
>>
>> fs/ubifs/dir.c: In function 'ubifs_readdir':
>> fs/ubifs/dir.c:629:13: warning: 'fstr_real_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> fstr.len = fstr_real_len;
>> ^
>>
>> Introduced by commit
>>
>> f4f61d2cc6d8 ("ubifs: Implement encrypted filenames")
>>
>> This is a false positive because assignment and use are both protected by
>> "if (encrypted)".
>>
>> I have no idea why this did not turn up earlier in my builds.
>
> FYI, f4f61d2cc6d8 is not in the -tip tree, so it cannot possibly have introduced
> this warning.
The commit comes via my UBIFS tree. But I never saw this warning, I'm testing with both gcc-4.8 and gcc-6.1.
Let me investigate into that.
Does today's tip change some compiler flags?
Thanks,
//richard
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