Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

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2013/2/21 Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> drivers/md/dm-raid.c:453:53: warning: 'rebuilds_per_group' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
> drivers/md/dm-raid.c:383:11: note: 'rebuilds_per_group' was declared here

Hello, is this patch getting merged? I'm also seeing this exact same
compiler warning in my mainline builds.

Tommi

>
> It is impossible that rebuilds_per_group could be used before set, but set
> it to 0 anyways to silence GCC warnings.
>
> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2 - Added GCC comment. Update commit log with a more definite explanation.
>
> As Neil has pointed out, https://lwn.net/Articles/529954/ indicates
> uninitialized_var() is going away.
>
>  drivers/md/dm-raid.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
> index 9d6bf19..1dbc341 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
> @@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ static int validate_region_size(struct raid_set *rs, unsigned long region_size)
>  static int validate_raid_redundancy(struct raid_set *rs)
>  {
>         unsigned i, rebuild_cnt = 0;
> -       unsigned rebuilds_per_group, copies, d;
> +       unsigned rebuilds_per_group = 0; /* GCC 4.6.3 */
> +       unsigned copies, d;
>         unsigned group_size, last_group_start;
>
>         for (i = 0; i < rs->md.raid_disks; i++)
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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