Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:03:38PM CET, da...@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:55:35 -0500 (EST)
>
>> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:46:44 +0100
>>
>>> Currently the filters added to qdiscs are independent. So for example if you
>>> have 2 netdevices and you create ingress qdisc on both and you want to add
>>> identical filter rules both, you need to add them twice. This patchset
>>> makes this easier and mainly saves resources allowing to share all filters
>>> within a qdisc - I call it a "filter block". Also this helps to save
>>> resources when we do offload to hw for example to expensive TCAM.
>>
>> Series applied, thanks Jiri et al.
>
>Jiri, I'm not going to revert because of this, but please give me a follow-up
>patch which deals with this warning:
>
>net/sched/cls_api.c: In function ‘tc_dump_tfilter’:
>net/sched/cls_api.c:1362:8: warning: ‘parent’ may be used uninitialized in
>this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> if (!tcf_chain_dump(chain, q, parent, skb, cb,
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> index_start, &index))
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>It's one of those:
>
> u32 var;
>
> if (condition) {
> ...
> goto out;
> } else {
> var = whatever;
> }
> use(var);
>out:
> ...
>
>situations that GCC can't seem to see properly.
Odd. I don't see this warning with:
gcc version 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1) (GCC)
Although parent is never used in case it is unititialize, I will
initialize to 0 to make gcc happy.
Thanks.
