This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dev/dax: fix uninitialized variable build warning
to the 4.14-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:
dev-dax-fix-uninitialized-variable-build-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:21:55 -0600
Subject: dev/dax: fix uninitialized variable build warning
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 0a3ff78699d1817e711441715d22665475466036 ]
Fix this build warning:
warning: 'phys' may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
As reported here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/16/152
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/13181373/log/
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/device.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/dax/device.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ __weak phys_addr_t dax_pgoff_to_phys(str
unsigned long size)
{
struct resource *res;
- phys_addr_t phys;
+ /* gcc-4.6.3-nolibc for i386 complains that this is uninitialized */
+ phys_addr_t uninitialized_var(phys);
int i;
for (i = 0; i < dev_dax->num_resources; i++) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/dev-dax-fix-uninitialized-variable-build-warning.patch