I'm not positive, but it looks like it might be possible to reach the end of this function and return an uninitialized value for "rc". Anyway it causes a static checker warning and let's silence it. The warning was introduced in commit b2e0d1625e19 ('dax: fix lifetime of in-kernel dax mappings with dax_map_atomic()'). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 90322eb..3744e14 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter, loff_t pos = start, max = start, bh_max = start; bool hole = false, need_wmb = false; struct block_device *bdev = NULL; - int rw = iov_iter_rw(iter), rc; + int rc = 0; + int rw = iov_iter_rw(iter); long map_len = 0; struct blk_dax_ctl dax = { .addr = (void __pmem *) ERR_PTR(-EIO), -- 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