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: 9c2ab2f1ec ("vhost: stop transfer elem ownership in vhost_handle_guest_kick")
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220910151117.6665-1-shentey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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