On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 07:55:51AM +1300, Kees Cook wrote:

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:44 AM Jani Nikula [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Edwin Zimmerman [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

quoted

Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches.
After this, future always-initialized stack variables will work
and not throw warnings like this:

fs/fcntl.c: In function ‘send_sigio_to_task’:
fs/fcntl.c:738:13: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
   siginfo_t si;
             ^~

That's a pain, so this means we can't have any new variables in { }
scope except for at the top of a function?

Just in case this wasn't clear: no, it's just the switch statement
before the first "case". I cannot imagine how bad it would be if we
couldn't have block-scoped variables! Heh. :)

Sorry, it was not clear at first glance.  So no more objection from me
for this change.

greg k-h