From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751410AbaCaUxd (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:53:33 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48753 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750989AbaCaUxb (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:53:31 -0400 Message-ID: <5339D57A.4050504@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:52:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: behanw@converseincode.com, arnd@arndb.de CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, Mark Charlebois Subject: Re: [PATCH] LLVMLinux: Remove warning about returning an uninitialized variable References: <1395470329-15065-1-git-send-email-behanw@converseincode.com> In-Reply-To: <1395470329-15065-1-git-send-email-behanw@converseincode.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/21/2014 11:38 PM, behanw@converseincode.com wrote: > From: Behan Webster > > Fix uninitialized return code in default case in cmpxchg-local.h > > This patch fixes the code to prevent an uninitialized return value that is detected > when compiling with clang. The bug produces numerous warnings when compiling the > Linux kernel with clang. > > Signed-off-by: Behan Webster > Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois > --- > include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h > index d8d4c89..4c41bb8 100644 > --- a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h > +++ b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h > @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg_local_generic(volatile void *ptr, > break; > default: > wrong_size_cmpxchg(ptr); > + prev = 0; > } > raw_local_irq_restore(flags); > return prev; > Shouldn't this be a build time assert (__compiletime_error())? -hpa