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SubjectRe: [PATCH resend] fs/eventpoll.c: fix compilation warning
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> [cc Al Viro and Shawn Bohrer]
> On 14/01/2011 11:52, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> This patch fixes following compilation warning
>> fs/eventpoll.c:1119: warning: 'slack' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
>> ---
>>  fs/eventpoll.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
>> index 8cf0724..89b5e98 100644
>> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
>> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
>> @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
>>  {
>>       int res, eavail, timed_out = 0;
>>       unsigned long flags;
>> -     long slack;
>> +     long uninitialized_var(slack);
>>       wait_queue_t wait;
>>       struct timespec end_time;
>>       ktime_t expires, *to = NULL;
>
> Hi Viresh,
>
> This is certainly the correct thing to do if timeout cannot be negative.
>
> Al, Shawn
>
> Can timeout be negative, and if so what does it mean?

Yes timeout can be negative. When timeout is negative it signifies an
infinite timeout. Therefore I think the correct fix is to initialize
slack to 0. I actually sent a patch to fix this back in November, but
it looks like it was never applied.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/27/143

Andrew, can you apply this patch? Let me know if I need to resend.

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Shawn
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