Re: [PATCH] serial: sh-sci: fix uninitialized variable warning

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:38 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:08:24PM -0300, Charles wrote:
> > Avoid following compiler warning on uninitialized variable
> >
> > In file included from ./include/linux/rwsem.h:16:0,
> >                  from ./include/linux/notifier.h:15,
> >                  from ./include/linux/clk.h:17,
> >                  from drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:24:
> > drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c: In function ‘sci_dma_rx_submit’:
> > ./include/linux/spinlock.h:288:3: warning: ‘flags’ may be used
> > uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> >    _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \
> >    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:1353:16: note: ‘flags’ was declared here
> >   unsigned long flags;
> >                 ^~~~~
>
> What version of gcc is doing this?  It should be smarter than that,
> perhaps you should just upgrade.

Yep, worked like a charm. I was running gcc 6.3.0, just updated to 8.3.0
and got rid of that warning.

Thanks, Greg
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



-- 
Charles




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