Clang warns: fs/nfs/dir.c:1772:6: error: variable 'error' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (fhandle == NULL || fattr == NULL) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1801:44: note: uninitialized use occurs here trace_nfs_lookup_exit(dir, dentry, flags, error); ^~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1772:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (fhandle == NULL || fattr == NULL) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1772:6: error: variable 'error' is used uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (fhandle == NULL || fattr == NULL) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1801:44: note: uninitialized use occurs here trace_nfs_lookup_exit(dir, dentry, flags, error); ^~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1772:6: note: remove the '||' if its condition is always false if (fhandle == NULL || fattr == NULL) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/nfs/dir.c:1754:11: note: initialize the variable 'error' to silence this warning int error; ^ = 0 2 errors generated. Add a label to skip the call to trace_nfs_lookup_exit() when the call to nfs_alloc_fhandle() or nfs_alloc_fattr_with_label() fails because trace_nfs_lookup_enter() has not been called at that point so tracing the exit does not make sense. Fixes: 8d3df1d0387e ("NFS: Remove the label from the nfs4_lookup_res struct") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1498 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 8de99f426183..1c978a7cf730 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ struct dentry *nfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, unsigned in fhandle = nfs_alloc_fhandle(); fattr = nfs_alloc_fattr_with_label(NFS_SERVER(dir)); if (fhandle == NULL || fattr == NULL) - goto out; + goto out_no_trace; dir_verifier = nfs_save_change_attribute(dir); trace_nfs_lookup_enter(dir, dentry, flags); @@ -1799,6 +1799,7 @@ struct dentry *nfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, unsigned in nfs_set_verifier(dentry, dir_verifier); out: trace_nfs_lookup_exit(dir, dentry, flags, error); +out_no_trace: nfs_free_fattr(fattr); nfs_free_fhandle(fhandle); return res; base-commit: cb66e0e973daa668dadd43441f877377a1b7b1ff -- 2.34.0.rc0