Re: [patch] dax: silence an uninitialized variable warning

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Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@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),
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