Hello Jeff Layton, The patch 9a8d03ca2e2c: "ceph: attempt to do async create when possible" from Nov 27, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/ceph/file.c:540 ceph_async_create_cb() error: uninitialized symbol 'base'. fs/ceph/file.c 526 mapping_set_error(req->r_parent->i_mapping, result); 527 528 if (result) { 529 struct dentry *dentry = req->r_dentry; 530 int pathlen; 531 u64 base; ^^^^^^^^ 532 char *path = ceph_mdsc_build_path(req->r_dentry, &pathlen, 533 &base, 0); ^^^^^ 534 535 ceph_dir_clear_complete(req->r_parent); 536 if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) 537 d_drop(dentry); 538 539 /* FIXME: start returning I/O errors on all accesses? */ 540 pr_warn("ceph: async create failure path=(%llx)%s result=%d!\n", 541 base, IS_ERR(path) ? "<<bad>>" : path, result); ^^^^ Potentialy uninitialized on error. 542 ceph_mdsc_free_path(path, pathlen); 543 } 544 545 if (req->r_target_inode) { regards, dan carpenter