On 9/10/22 16:11, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
GCC issues a false positive warning, resulting in build failure with -Werror:In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:114, from src/include/glib-compat.h:32, from src/include/qemu/osdep.h:144, from ../src/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c:10: In function ‘g_autoptr_cleanup_generic_gfree’, inlined from ‘vhost_handle_guest_kick’ at ../src/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c:292:42: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glib-autocleanups.h:28:3: error: ‘elem’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] 28 | g_free (*pp); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ ../src/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c: In function ‘vhost_handle_guest_kick’: ../src/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c:292:42: note: ‘elem’ was declared here 292 | g_autofree VirtQueueElement *elem; | ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors There is actually no problem since "elem" is initialized in both branches. Silence the warning by initializig it with "NULL". $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 12.2.0 Fixes: 9c2ab2f1ec333be8614cc12272d4b91960704dbe ("vhost: stop transfer elem ownership in vhost_handle_guest_kick") Signed-off-by: Bernhard Beschow<[email protected]> --- hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
It's not a false positive, but the fix is correct. Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> r~
