The patch titled Subject: mm/slab_common.c: suppress warning has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slab_common.c: suppress warning False positive: mm/slab_common.c: In function 'kmem_cache_create': mm/slab_common.c:204: warning: 's' may be used uninitialized in this function Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab_common.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/slab_common.c~mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning mm/slab_common.c --- a/mm/slab_common.c~mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning +++ a/mm/slab_common.c @@ -211,8 +211,10 @@ kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); err = kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size); - if (err) + if (err) { + s = NULL; /* suppress uninit var warning */ goto out_unlock; + } /* * Some allocators will constraint the set of valid flags to a subset _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch maintainers-akpm-maintenance.patch mm-slab_commonc-suppress-warning.patch mem-hotplug-fix-boot-failed-in-case-all-the-nodes-are-hotpluggable-checkpatch-fixes.patch kernel-posix-timersc-code-clean-up-checkpatch-fixes.patch input-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch fs-ocfs2-stack_userc-fix-typo-in-ocfs2_control_release.patch o2dlm-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper-checkpatch-fixes.patch ocfs2-free-inode-when-i_count-becomes-zero.patch mm.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-zones_online_to-attribute-fix.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-zones_online_to-attribute-fix-2.patch mm-compaction-defer-each-zone-individually-instead-of-preferred-zone-fix.patch mm-compaction-khugepaged-should-not-give-up-due-to-need_resched-fix.patch prctl-pr_set_mm-introduce-pr_set_mm_map-operation-v3-fix.patch mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch checkpatch-fix-spello.patch fs-proc-task_mmuc-shift-mm_access-from-m_start-to-proc_maps_open-checkpatch-fixes.patch fs-proc-task_mmuc-simplify-the-vma_stop-logic-checkpatch-fixes.patch fs-proc-task_nommuc-shift-mm_access-from-m_start-to-proc_maps_open-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next.patch drivers-gpio-gpio-zevioc-fix-build.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation.patch watchdog-control-hard-lockup-detection-default-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html