The rfc4106 encrypy/decrypt helper functions cause an annoying false-positive warning in allmodconfig if we turn on -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings again: arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c: In function ?helper_rfc4106_decrypt?: include/linux/scatterlist.h:67:31: warning: ?dst_sg_walk.sg? may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] The problem seems to be that the compiler doesn't track the state of the 'one_entry_in_sg' variable across the kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_end section. This takes the easy way out by adding a bogus initialization, which should be harmless enough to get the patch into v4.9 so we can turn on this warning again by default without producing useless output. A follow-up patch for v4.10 rearranges the code to make the warning go away. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> --- arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c index 0ab5ee1..aa8b067 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ static int helper_rfc4106_encrypt(struct aead_request *req) unsigned long auth_tag_len = crypto_aead_authsize(tfm); u8 iv[16] __attribute__ ((__aligned__(AESNI_ALIGN))); struct scatter_walk src_sg_walk; - struct scatter_walk dst_sg_walk; + struct scatter_walk dst_sg_walk = {}; unsigned int i; /* Assuming we are supporting rfc4106 64-bit extended */ @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ static int helper_rfc4106_decrypt(struct aead_request *req) u8 iv[16] __attribute__ ((__aligned__(AESNI_ALIGN))); u8 authTag[16]; struct scatter_walk src_sg_walk; - struct scatter_walk dst_sg_walk; + struct scatter_walk dst_sg_walk = {}; unsigned int i; if (unlikely(req->assoclen != 16 && req->assoclen != 20)) -- 2.9.0