Quiet the warning below in Lustre code. Actually the warning is invalid since we either always assign the symname in ll_readlink_internal or return an error there and then the following rc check would assign symlink variable explicitly. In file included from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/linux/lustre_compat25.h:41:0, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/linux/lvfs.h:48, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/lvfs.h:45, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/obd_support.h:41, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/obd_class.h:40, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/linux/lustre_lite.h:49, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/../include/lustre_lite.h:45, from /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c:42: /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c: In function ‘ll_follow_link’: /home/green/bk/linux/include/linux/namei.h:88:29: warning: ‘symname’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] nd->saved_names[nd->depth] = path; ^ /home/green/bk/linux/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c:123:8: note: ‘symname’ was declared here char *symname; ^ Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c index 80d48b5..129d302 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static void *ll_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; struct ptlrpc_request *request = NULL; int rc; - char *symname; + char *symname = NULL; CDEBUG(D_VFSTRACE, "VFS Op\n"); /* Limit the recursive symlink depth to 5 instead of default -- 1.8.5.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel