From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: avoid uninitialized variable use
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:15:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6368040.ggKGx5CyrW@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465981566.9515.21.camel@tiscali.nl>
On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:06:06 AM CEST Paul Bolle wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > ---
> > I thought I had send this on May 12 when I first became aware of
> > the warning, but I can't find a reference to that now on any
> > mailing list archives, and I'm not sure who is picking up
> > reiserfs patches these days.
> >
> > The warning is now one of the few 'allmodconfig' warnings for
> > arm64 and possibly some other architectures.
>
> x86 and x86_64 are two of those architectures. This patch silences the
> warning on those architectures too.
>
> (I wouldn't dare to say whether the patch is correct. I've looked at
> this warning quite a few times in the last year and found the code hard
> to grok. It's impressive that you managed to come up with an actual
> fix.)
Jan Kara has shown that my patch is completely wrong, and Jeff Mahoney
sent a correct one that is now in linux-next.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-15 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-27 20:22 Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-15 9:06 ` Paul Bolle
2016-06-15 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-06-15 16:39 ` Paul Bolle
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