Re: [PATCH v3] uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 16:49:05 EST


On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 07:49:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:24 PM, Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> but without the initialization I get,
>
> CC drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.o
> In file included from ./include/linux/seqlock.h:36:0,
> from ./include/linux/time.h:6,
> from ./include/linux/stat.h:19,
> from ./include/linux/module.h:10,
> from drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:10:
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c: In function âuart_startup.part.20â:
> ./include/linux/spinlock.h:260:3: warning: âflagsâ may be used uninitialized in this function -Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:184:22: note: âflagsâ was declared here
> unsigned long page, flags;
> ^~~~~

Hmm... I didn't see such warning. How you run make?

Btw, you adding the only places with such assignments in this file.
So, I would not do in your case, until entire file would be fixed.

(But warning looks bogus, or you have some patches on top of current
vanilla / next)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko