Stephen, Ingo,

CC'ing David.

On 14.12.2016 08:24, Ingo Molnar wrote:

* Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi all,

After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
produced this warning:

fs/ubifs/dir.c: In function 'ubifs_readdir':
fs/ubifs/dir.c:629:13: warning: 'fstr_real_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
    fstr.len = fstr_real_len;
             ^

Introduced by commit

  f4f61d2cc6d8 ("ubifs: Implement encrypted filenames")

This is a false positive because assignment and use are both protected by
"if (encrypted)".

I have no idea why this did not turn up earlier in my builds.

FYI, f4f61d2cc6d8 is not in the -tip tree, so it cannot possibly have introduced 
this warning.

The commit comes via my UBIFS tree. But I never saw this warning, I'm testing with both gcc-4.8 and gcc-6.1.
Let me investigate into that.

Does today's tip change some compiler flags?

Thanks,
//richard