On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 08:46:22PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> mm/shmem.c: In function ‘shmem_file_aio_read’:
> mm/shmem.c:1414: warning: ‘error’ may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> If the loop is aborted during the first iteration by one of the two first
> break statements, error will be uninitialized.
>
> Introduced by commit 6e58e79db8a16222b31fc8da1ca2ac2dccfc4237
> ("introduce copy_page_to_iter, kill loop over iovec in
> generic_file_aio_read()").
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The code is too complex to see if this is an obvious false positive.
Good catch; sadly, it *can* be triggered - read() starting past the EOF
will step into it. Applied, will push today.
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