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A new on by default warning in clang [1] aims to flags instances where
const variables without static or thread local storage or const members
in aggregate types are not initialized because it can lead to an
indeterminate value. This is quite noisy for the kernel due to
instances originating from header files such as:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.h:62:2: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (ring->size)' (aka 'const unsigned int') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
62 | typecheck(typeof(ring->size), next);
| ^
include/linux/typecheck.h:10:9: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
10 | ({ type __dummy; \
| ^
include/net/ip.h:478:14: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (rt->dst.expires)' (aka 'const unsigned long') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
478 | if (mtu && time_before(jiffies, rt->dst.expires))
| ^
include/linux/jiffies.h:138:26: note: expanded from macro 'time_before'
138 | #define time_before(a,b) time_after(b,a)
| ^
include/linux/jiffies.h:128:3: note: expanded from macro 'time_after'
128 | (typecheck(unsigned long, a) && \
| ^
include/linux/typecheck.h:11:12: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
11 | typeof(x) __dummy2; \
| ^
include/linux/list.h:409:27: warning: default initialization of an object of type 'union (unnamed union at include/linux/list.h:409:27)' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
409 | struct list_head *next = smp_load_acquire(&head->next);
| ^
include/asm-generic/barrier.h:176:29: note: expanded from macro 'smp_load_acquire'
176 | #define smp_load_acquire(p) __smp_load_acquire(p)
| ^
arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h:164:59: note: expanded from macro '__smp_load_acquire'
164 | union { __unqual_scalar_typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u; \
| ^
include/linux/list.h:409:27: note: member '__val' declared 'const' here
crypto/scatterwalk.c:66:22: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct scatter_walk' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
66 | struct scatter_walk walk;
| ^
include/crypto/algapi.h:112:15: note: member 'addr' declared 'const' here
112 | void *const addr;
| ^
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:733:24: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct vm_area_struct' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
733 | struct vm_area_struct pseudo_vma;
| ^
include/linux/mm_types.h:803:20: note: member 'vm_flags' declared 'const' here
803 | const vm_flags_t vm_flags;
| ^
Silencing the instances from typecheck.h is difficult because '= {}' is
not available in older but supported compilers and '= {0}' would cause
warnings about a literal 0 being treated as NULL. While it might be
possible to come up with a local hack to silence the warning for
clang-21+, it may not be worth it since -Wuninitialized will still
trigger if an uninitialized const variable is actually used.
In all audited cases of the "field" variant of the warning, the members
are either not used in the particular call path, modified through other
means such as memset() / memcpy() because the containing object is not
const, or are within a union with other non-const members.
Since this warning does not appear to have a high signal to noise ratio,
just disable it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.