Hello Darrick J. Wong, The patch 0bb9d159bd01: "xfs: streamline xfs_attr3_leaf_inactive" from Jan 14, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning: fs/xfs/xfs_attr_inactive.c:122 xfs_attr3_leaf_inactive() error: uninitialized symbol 'error'. fs/xfs/xfs_attr_inactive.c 90 struct xfs_attr_leaf_entry *entry; 91 struct xfs_attr_leaf_name_remote *name_rmt; 92 int error; ^^^^^ 93 int i; 94 95 xfs_attr3_leaf_hdr_from_disk(mp->m_attr_geo, &ichdr, leaf); 96 97 /* 98 * Find the remote value extents for this leaf and invalidate their 99 * incore buffers. 100 */ 101 entry = xfs_attr3_leaf_entryp(leaf); 102 for (i = 0; i < ichdr.count; entry++, i++) { Smatch complains that we might not enter this loop or maybe we always hit a continue statement. 103 int blkcnt; 104 105 if (!entry->nameidx || (entry->flags & XFS_ATTR_LOCAL)) 106 continue; 107 108 name_rmt = xfs_attr3_leaf_name_remote(leaf, i); 109 if (!name_rmt->valueblk) 110 continue; 111 112 blkcnt = xfs_attr3_rmt_blocks(dp->i_mount, 113 be32_to_cpu(name_rmt->valuelen)); 114 error = xfs_attr3_rmt_stale(dp, 115 be32_to_cpu(name_rmt->valueblk), blkcnt); 116 if (error) 117 goto err; 118 } 119 120 xfs_trans_brelse(*trans, bp); 121 err: 122 return error; Possibly uninitialized 123 } regards, dan carpenter