On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Ming Lei <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Commit 60928a91b0b3 ("md: raid1: use bio helper in process_checks()")
>>> is probably correct, but I get a new compile-time warning after
>>> it, and have trouble understanding what it fixes:
>>>
>>> drivers/md/raid1.c: In function 'sync_request_write':
>>> drivers/md/raid1.c:2172:9: error: 'page_len$' may be used uninitialized in
>>> this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>> if (memcmp(page_address(ppages[j]),
>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> page_address(spages[j]),
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> page_len[j]))
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> drivers/md/raid1.c:2160:7: note: 'page_len$' was declared here
>>> int page_len[RESYNC_PAGES];
>>> ^~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> This reverts it to resolve the warning.
>>
>> Please try the following patch:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/28/126
>
>
> That patch will certainly shut up the warning, but will also prevent
> the compiler from warning when the function gets changed in some
> way that actually leads to an uninitialized use of the page_len array,
Why do you think that it leads to an uninitialized use of the page_len array?
The following code does initialize the array well enough for future use:
bio_for_each_segment_all(bi, sbio, j)
page_len[j] = bi->bv_len;
That is why we don't need to initialize the array explicitly, but just
for killing
the warning.
Thanks,
Ming Lei
