[PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Fix uninitialized variable warning in FPMR test

Mark Brown broonie at debian.org
Fri Feb 7 11:04:57 PST 2025


On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:45:39AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 05:26:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 03:06:42AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > Fix compiler warning about potentially uninitialized orig_fpmr variable:

> > > 	testcases/fpmr_siginfo.c: In function ‘fpmr_present’:
> > > 	testcases/fpmr_siginfo.c:68:25: warning: ‘orig_fpmr’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

> > This seems like something that should be reported to the compiler
> > people, we only print the FPMR value if have_fpmr and there's an
> > assignment to orig_fpmr in that case.  Which compiler is this?

> Good point. I am using:
> 	# gcc --version
> 	gcc (GCC) 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-2)

> Clang, on the other hand, isn't upset about it.

Right, and I'm not seeing it here either.  I'm not opposed to applying
the patch if enough people are using toolchains that have the issue, but
these sorts of sledgehammer assignments aren't ideal since they mask
issues.
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