This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning to the 3.18-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: net-tg3-avoid-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e434e04110704eb91acfecbd0fb8ca8e2da9c29b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:39:15 +0100 Subject: net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit e434e04110704eb91acfecbd0fb8ca8e2da9c29b upstream. The tg3_set_eeprom() function correctly initializes the 'start' variable, but gcc generates a false warning: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c: In function 'tg3_set_eeprom': drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c:12057:4: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] I have not come up with a way to restructure the code in a way that avoids the warning without making it less readable, so this adds an initialization for the declaration to shut up that warning. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -12021,7 +12021,7 @@ static int tg3_set_eeprom(struct net_dev int ret; u32 offset, len, b_offset, odd_len; u8 *buf; - __be32 start, end; + __be32 start = 0, end; if (tg3_flag(tp, NO_NVRAM) || eeprom->magic != TG3_EEPROM_MAGIC) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/ib-iser-fix-sparse-warnings.patch queue-3.18/cred-userns-define-current_user_ns-as-a-function.patch queue-3.18/pci-xilinx-fix-harmless-format-string-warning.patch queue-3.18/alsa-ppc-awacs-shut-up-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch queue-3.18/net-tg3-avoid-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch queue-3.18/mtd-avoid-stack-overflow-in-mtd-cfi-code.patch queue-3.18/powerpc-ptrace-fix-out-of-bounds-array-access-warning.patch queue-3.18/mlx5-avoid-build-warnings-on-32-bit.patch queue-3.18/drbd-avoid-redefinition-of-bits_per_page.patch