Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 5 authors, 2013-06-13

Re: [PATCH linux-next] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

From: Paul Menzel <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-20 22:18:51
Also in: dm-devel, lkml

Dear Tim,


Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 23:16 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 13:31 -0700 schrieb Tim Gardner:

Noting the `gcc` version and build environment is never wrong. ;-)
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drivers/md/dm-raid.c: In function 'raid_ctr':
drivers/md/dm-raid.c:453:53: warning: 'rebuilds_per_group' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
drivers/md/dm-raid.c:383:11: note: 'rebuilds_per_group' was declared here

It appears unlikely that rebuilds_per_group could be used before set,
Why? Otherwise the compiler would not complain, right?
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but set it to 0 anyways just to shutup GCC.
Unfortunately I do not know what linux-next version you tested, so the
line numbers are off in.

        $ git describe
        v3.7.5-4-g9c2ab66
See below …
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Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <redacted>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <redacted>
---
 drivers/md/dm-raid.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
index 9d6bf19..8005caf 100644
Git to the rescue. I guess I should be able to find that commit to make
sense of the line numbers.
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--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int validate_region_size(struct raid_set *rs, unsigned long region_size)
 static int validate_raid_redundancy(struct raid_set *rs)
 {
 	unsigned i, rebuild_cnt = 0;
-	unsigned rebuilds_per_group, copies, d;
+	unsigned rebuilds_per_group = 0, copies, d;
 	unsigned group_size, last_group_start;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < rs->md.raid_disks; i++)

Thanks,

Paul

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