Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The thing hasn't even seen a compiler, and when you *do* show the code > to a compiler, said compiler correctly warns about No, it doesn't - at least not gcc-8.3.1 on Fedora 29. What compiler are you using? > afs_do_silly_unlink() potentially returning an uninitialized variable. Not only has it seen a compiler, it's also been tested numerous times, with firefox, sqlite and some commands that tests file locking manually. But please hold off for now. I've just tried the system flock program - and that causes a lock leakage message for some reason that needs investigating. David