On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > with gcc 4.1.2: > > fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c: In function ‘xfs_reflink_reserve_cow_range’: > fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c:327: warning: ‘error’ may be used uninitialized in this function > > Indeed, if "count" is zero, the function will return an uninitialized > error value. > > While "count" is unlikely to be zero, this function is called through > the public iomap API. Hence fix this by preinitializing error to zero. The iomap API should never call in with a zero count, but I think the initialization is a fine safety net anyway: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Btw, what compiler did you get this from? I haven't seen it, but then again I recently missed a lot of initializers without compiler warnings, so either something changed in the Debian stable gcc or our build system recently.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
