Re: kcsan -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning in ntfs3

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 10:00, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026, at 21:12, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026, at 21:06, Marco Elver wrote:
> >> On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 17:26, Marco Elver <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> > To me, 2 makes more sense. The attribute requires gcc-11 or higher,
> >>> > so you need to wrap that in a compiler version specific macro,
> >>> > but since I only saw the warning with gcc-12 and higher, that
> >>> > should be fine.
> >>
> >> Kindly test if you can:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> >
> > Applied to my randconfig tree and verified that this fixes the
> > known warning (only one out of about 200 random configs). I'll
> > let you know if something comes up by tomorrow.
>
> Unfortunately, there are new warnings after your patches using
> gcc-11. In 500 randconfig builds with that compiler, I saw 7
> configurations failing with one of these four messages:

Looks like a compiler bug to me; can you check gcc-12+ ? Maybe we need
to allow the __access attribute only for later GCC versions.