In the case where sync is not true the variable ret not being set and a garbage value is being returned. Fix this by ensuring ret is initialized to 0. Fixes: c19a5d31b470 ("netfs: Add a function to consolidate beginning a read") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/netfs/io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/netfs/io.c b/fs/netfs/io.c index 3db9356eb7c2..05fbe6665508 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/io.c +++ b/fs/netfs/io.c @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static bool netfs_rreq_submit_slice(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, int netfs_begin_read(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, bool sync) { unsigned int debug_index = 0; - int ret; + int ret = 0; _enter("R=%x %llx-%llx", rreq->debug_id, rreq->start, rreq->start + rreq->len - 1); -- 2.34.1