Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix uninitialized-variable warning

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 10:21:26 EST


On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 04:51:06AM +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 07:48:15AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:36:48PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > This one is just gross. I think we'll need to find some other fix
> > > > that doesn't obsfucate the code as much.
> > >
> > > Initializing the nvme_result in nvme_features() would do it, as would
> > > setting it in the error path in __nvme_submit_sync_cmd() -- either
> > > way the compiler cannot be confused about whether it is initialized
> > > later on.
> >
> > Given that this is outside the hot path we can just zero the whole
> > structure before submitting the I/O.
>
> I think this should be okay:

This looks good. Can you send a formal patch?