[PATCH] mtd: ichxrom: maybe-uninitialized with gcc-4.9

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 14:17:05 PST 2017


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:47:59PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 05:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > pci_read_config_word() might fail and not initialize its output,
> > as pointed out by older versions of gcc when using the -Wmaybe-unintialized
> > flag:
> > 
> > drivers/mtd/maps/ichxrom.c: In function ‘ichxrom_cleanup’:
> > drivers/mtd/maps/ichxrom.c:63:2: error: ‘word’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
> > 
> > This is apparently a correct warning, though it does not show up
> > with newer compilers. Changing the code to not attempt to write
> > back uninitialized data into PCI config space is a correct
> > fix for the problem and avoids the warning.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>

Applied to l2-mtd.git



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