The inode variable is used as a parameter by the step_into function, but is not assigned a value in the sub-lookup_slow branch path. So get the inode in the sub-lookup_slow branch path. Signed-off-by: sunliming <sunliming@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1f28d3f463c3..a1a3e9514f46 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2014,6 +2014,8 @@ static const char *walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, int flags) dentry = lookup_slow(&nd->last, nd->path.dentry, nd->flags); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return ERR_CAST(dentry); + + inode = d_backing_inode(dentry); } if (!(flags & WALK_MORE) && nd->depth) put_link(nd); -- 2.25.1
