On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Commit 60928a91b0b3 ("md: raid1: use bio helper in process_checks()") >>> is probably correct, but I get a new compile-time warning after >>> it, and have trouble understanding what it fixes: >>> >>> drivers/md/raid1.c: In function 'sync_request_write': >>> drivers/md/raid1.c:2172:9: error: 'page_len$' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] >>> if (memcmp(page_address(ppages[j]), >>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> page_address(spages[j]), >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> page_len[j])) >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> drivers/md/raid1.c:2160:7: note: 'page_len$' was declared here >>> int page_len[RESYNC_PAGES]; >>> ^~~~~~~~ >>> >>> This reverts it to resolve the warning. >> >> Please try the following patch: >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/28/126 > > > That patch will certainly shut up the warning, but will also prevent > the compiler from warning when the function gets changed in some > way that actually leads to an uninitialized use of the page_len array, Why do you think that it leads to an uninitialized use of the page_len array? The following code does initialize the array well enough for future use: bio_for_each_segment_all(bi, sbio, j) page_len[j] = bi->bv_len; That is why we don't need to initialize the array explicitly, but just for killing the warning. Thanks, Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html