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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.0 0000/1066] 6.0.16-rc2 review
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 12:09:13AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> Hey Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 10:49:23AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.0.16 release.
> > There are 1066 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:38:41 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> > Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>
> >     cifs: improve symlink handling for smb2+
> 
> This patch here appears to fail allmodconfig + LLVM on RISC-V:
> ../fs/cifs/smb2inode.c:419:4: error: variable 'idata' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
>                         idata->symlink_target = kstrdup(cfile->symlink_target, GFP_KERNEL);
>                         ^~~~~
> ../fs/cifs/smb2inode.c:76:35: note: initialize the variable 'idata' to silence this warning
>         struct cifs_open_info_data *idata;
>                                          ^
>                                           = NULL
> 1 error generated.

Fixed with upstream commit 69ccafdd35cdf ("cifs: fix uninitialised var in
smb2_compound_op()").

Guenter

> 
> It looks like this was reported as a smatch error on Christmas Day:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/202212250020.fyWQFNzF-lkp@intel.com/
> 
> Given the day in question, missing that report seems pretty
> understandable :)
> 
> I tried to see if this had been reported already against the patches
> themselves, rather than Sasha's queue, but given the size of the patchset
> I may have missed it. Apologies for the noise if I have.
> 
> Thanks,
> Conor.
>