Hi Oleg, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on mmotm/master] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Oleg-Nesterov/signal-simplify-set_user_sigmask-restore_user_sigmask/20190606-062512 base: git://git.cmpxchg.org/linux-mmotm.git master config: sparc64-allyesconfig (attached as .config) compiler: sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.4.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # save the attached .config to linux build tree GCC_VERSION=7.4.0 make.cross ARCH=sparc64 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot Note: it may well be a FALSE warning. FWIW you are at least aware of it now. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Uninitialized_Warnings All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): In file included from include/linux/poll.h:12:0, from include/linux/ring_buffer.h:7, from include/linux/trace_events.h:6, from include/trace/syscall.h:7, from include/linux/syscalls.h:86, from kernel/signal.c:30: kernel/signal.c: In function 'set_user_sigmask': include/linux/uaccess.h:113:7: warning: 'kmask' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n); ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kernel/signal.c:2960:12: note: 'kmask' was declared here sigset_t *kmask; ^~~~~ kernel/signal.c: In function 'set_compat_user_sigmask': >> kernel/signal.c:2986:6: warning: 'kmask' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] if (get_compat_sigset(kmask, umask)) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ vim +/kmask +2986 kernel/signal.c 2975 2976 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT 2977 int set_compat_user_sigmask(const compat_sigset_t __user *umask, 2978 size_t sigsetsize) 2979 { 2980 sigset_t *kmask; 2981 2982 if (!umask) 2983 return 0; 2984 if (sigsetsize != sizeof(compat_sigset_t)) 2985 return -EINVAL; > 2986 if (get_compat_sigset(kmask, umask)) 2987 return -EFAULT; 2988 2989 set_restore_sigmask(); 2990 current->saved_sigmask = current->blocked; 2991 set_current_blocked(kmask); 2992 2993 return 0; 2994 } 2995 #endif 2996 --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation