From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> When we made the shmem_reserve_inode call in shmem_link conditional, we forgot to update the declaration for ret so that it always has a known value. Dan Carpenter pointed out this deficiency in the original patch. Fixes: "tmpfs: fix link accounting when a tmpfile is linked in" Reported-by: dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 0905215fb016..2c012eee133d 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2848,7 +2848,7 @@ static int shmem_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) { struct inode *inode = d_inode(old_dentry); - int ret; + int ret = 0; /* * No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes;