This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rbd: silence bogus -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning to the 4.9-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: rbd-silence-bogus-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d4c2269b3d5d06a8ea434b1841fbcaec336ed396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 11:15:48 +0200 Subject: rbd: silence bogus -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> commit d4c2269b3d5d06a8ea434b1841fbcaec336ed396 upstream. drivers/block/rbd.c: In function ‘rbd_watch_cb’: drivers/block/rbd.c:3690:5: error: ‘struct_v’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] drivers/block/rbd.c:3759:5: note: ‘struct_v’ was declared here Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -3756,7 +3756,7 @@ static void rbd_watch_cb(void *arg, u64 struct rbd_device *rbd_dev = arg; void *p = data; void *const end = p + data_len; - u8 struct_v; + u8 struct_v = 0; u32 len; u32 notify_op; int ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idryomov@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/rbd-silence-bogus-wmaybe-uninitialized-warning.patch