Smatch complains "err" can be uninitialized in the caller. fs/ext4/indirect.c:349 ext4_alloc_branch() error: uninitialized symbol 'err'. Set the error to zero on the success path. Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is a static checker fix and I don't know this code very well... Please review it extra carefully. fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 12b3f196010b..714f83632e3f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -6113,6 +6113,7 @@ ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple(struct ext4_allocation_request *ar, int *errp) ext4_mb_mark_bb(sb, block, 1, true); ar->len = 1; + *errp = 0; return block; } -- 2.43.0