gcc gets a bit confused by the logic in ovl_setup_trap() and can't figure out whether the local 'trap' variable in the caller was initialized or not: fs/overlayfs/super.c: In function 'ovl_fill_super': fs/overlayfs/super.c:1333:4: error: 'trap' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] iput(trap); ^~~~~~~~~~ fs/overlayfs/super.c:1312:17: note: 'trap' was declared here Reword slightly to make it easier for the compiler to understand. Fixes: 146d62e5a586 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 746ea36f3171..d150ad6dba94 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -995,8 +995,8 @@ static int ovl_setup_trap(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *dir, int err; trap = ovl_get_trap_inode(sb, dir); - err = PTR_ERR(trap); - if (IS_ERR(trap)) { + err = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(trap); + if (err) { if (err == -ELOOP) pr_err("overlayfs: conflicting %s path\n", name); return err; -- 2.20.0