On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:31:13AM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: > new_xattr in __simple_xattr_set() is only initialized with a valid > pointer if value is not NULL, which only happens if this function is > called directly with the intention to remove an existing extended > attribute. Even being safe to be this way, smatch warns about possible > NULL dereference. Dan Carpenter suggested using uninitialized_var() > which will make both gcc and smatch happy. > > Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> applied to cgroup/for-3.7. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
