On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > Hi, > > I saw the following scroll by during kernel compilation: > > fs/ext4/move_extent.c: In function 'mext_leaf_block': > > fs/ext4/move_extent.c:478: warning: 'start_ext.ee_block' may be used > uninitialized in this function > > Is it real? It seems that the initial start_ext.ee_len = 0 guards > against accidental use of an uninitialized start_ext.ee_block, but maybe > I missed something. >From my review of the code the fact that ee_len is set to zero should make this be safe, but my preference would be to clear start_ext.ee_block as well to prevent the warning from coming up (since false positives clutter up warnings and might cause us to miss a warning which isn't so benign). Akira-san, do you agree that it is currently is safe? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
