This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled um: random: Don't initialise hwrng struct with zero to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: um-random-don-t-initialise-hwrng-struct-with-zero.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 405f0a8d4d28cf4efa2d9727e465429ef43507b2 Author: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 23 09:58:42 2022 +0100 um: random: Don't initialise hwrng struct with zero [ Upstream commit 9e70cbd11b03889c92462cf52edb2bd023c798fa ] Initialising the hwrng struct with zeros causes a compile-time sparse warning: $ ARCH=um make -j10 W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ... CHECK arch/um/drivers/random.c arch/um/drivers/random.c:31:31: sparse: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Fix the warning by not initialising the hwrng struct with zeros as it is initialised anyway during module init. Fixes: 72d3e093afae ("um: random: Register random as hwrng-core device") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/random.c b/arch/um/drivers/random.c index 433a3f8f2ef3..32b3341fe970 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/random.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/random.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ * protects against a module being loaded twice at the same time. */ static int random_fd = -1; -static struct hwrng hwrng = { 0, }; +static struct hwrng hwrng; static DECLARE_COMPLETION(have_data); static int rng_dev_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool block)