Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the net-next tree

From: Martin KaFai Lau <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:56:05 -0800

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:36:47AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c: In function '__bpf_lru_list_rotate_inactive.isra.3':
> kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:201:28: warning: 'next' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   l->next_inactive_rotation = next;
>                             ^
>
> Introduced by commit
>
>   3a08c2fd7634 ("bpf: LRU List")
>
> I can't tell if this is a false positive or not.
A false positive.

A patch has been posted: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/695202/

Thanks for the report.
--Martin