Re: [v3] Help wanted for enabling -Wshadow=local

[Markus Armbruster]

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 11:55 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/10/2023 18.18, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> > On 06/10/2023 16.45, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> >> Local variables shadowing other local variables or parameters make the
>> >> code needlessly hard to understand.  Bugs love to hide in such code.
>> >> Evidence: "[PATCH v3 1/7] migration/rdma: Fix save_page method to fail
>> >> on polling error".
>> >>
>> >> Enabling -Wshadow would prevent bugs like this one.  But we have to
>> >> clean up all the offenders first.
>> >>
>> >> Quite a few people responded to my calls for help.  Thank you so much!
>> >>
>> >> I'm collecting patches in my git repo at
>> >> https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru.git in branch shadow-next.  All but the
>> >> last two are in a pending pull request.

[...]

>> >> More warnings may lurk in code my test build doesn't compile.  Need a
>> >> full CI build with -Wshadow=local to find them.  Anybody care to kick
>> >> one off?
>> >
>> > I ran a build here (with -Werror enabled, so that it's easier to see where
>> > it breaks):
>> >
>> >   https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/pipelines/1028023489
>> >
>> > ... but I didn't see any additional spots in the logs beside the ones that
>> > you already listed.
>>
>> After adding two more patches to fix the above warnings, things look
>> pretty
>> good:
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/pipelines/1028413030
>>
>> There are just some warnings left in the BSD code, as Warner already
>> mentioned in his reply to v2 of your mail:
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/5241420713
>
>
> I think I have fixes for these. I need to merge what just landed into
> bsd-user fork, rebase, test, the apply them to qemu master branch, retest
> and send them off...
>
> My illness has hung on longer than I thought so I'm still behind...

Get well, and looking forward to your patches!