Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This should actually be considered more of a bug report than a patch. > > Clang 18.1.8 (but not GCC 11.5.0) complains that the "subreq" local > variable can be used uninitialized in netfs_retry_read_subrequests(), > just after the abandon_after label. This function is unusual in having > three instances of this local variable. The third and last one is clearly > erroneous because there is a branch out of the enclosing do-while loop > to the end of this function, and it looks like the intent is that the > code at the end of this function be using the same value of the "subreq" > local variable as is used within that do-while loop. > > Therefore, take the obvious (if potentially quite misguided) approach > of removing the third declaration of "subreq", instead simply setting > it to NULL. I think you're looking at the old version of my netfs-writeback branch that's residing in Christian's vfs.netfs branch. I've posted a new version of my branch[1] without this problem and am hoping for Christian to update the branch[2] so that Stephen can pull it into linux-next. David [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20241216204124.3752367-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t [2] And hoping he'll remember to drop "[PATCH v5 26/32] Display waited-on page index after 1min of waiting" for me. I forgot to remove that debugging patch.
