Re: [PATCH] block: zoned: fix harmless maybe-uninitialized warning

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 22:51:47 EST


On 10/24/2016 07:00 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
"Arnd" == Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Arnd> The blkdev_report_zones produces a harmless warning when
Arnd> -Wmaybe-uninitialized is set, after gcc gets a little confused
Arnd> about the multiple 'goto' here:

Arnd> block/blk-zoned.c: In function 'blkdev_report_zones':
Arnd> block/blk-zoned.c:188:13: error: 'nz' may be used uninitialized in
Arnd> this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

Arnd> Moving the assignment to nr_zones makes this a little simpler
Arnd> while also avoiding the warning reliably. I'm removing the
Arnd> extraneous initialization of 'int ret' in the same patch, as that
Arnd> is semi-related and could cause an uninitialized use of that
Arnd> variable to not produce a warning.

Jens: Are you picking up Arnd's two fixes for the zoned code?

Yep, adding them now. Thanks Arnd.

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Jens Axboe