Hello Allison Collins,
The patch cfe3d8821c6f: "xfs: Add xfs_has_attr and subroutines" from
Jul 20, 2020, leads to the following Smatch warning:
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c:1431 xfs_attr_node_get()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'state' (see line 1426)
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
1398 STATIC int
1399 xfs_attr_node_get(
1400 struct xfs_da_args *args)
1401 {
1402 struct xfs_da_state *state;
1403 struct xfs_da_state_blk *blk;
1404 int i;
1405 int error;
1406
1407 trace_xfs_attr_node_get(args);
1408
1409 /*
1410 * Search to see if name exists, and get back a pointer to it.
1411 */
1412 error = xfs_attr_node_hasname(args, &state);
1413 if (error != -EEXIST)
1414 goto out_release;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
state can be NULL.
1415
1416 /*
1417 * Get the value, local or "remote"
1418 */
1419 blk = &state->path.blk[state->path.active - 1];
1420 error = xfs_attr3_leaf_getvalue(blk->bp, args);
1421
1422 /*
1423 * If not in a transaction, we have to release all the buffers.
1424 */
1425 out_release:
1426 for (i = 0; i < state->path.active; i++) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dereference
1427 xfs_trans_brelse(args->trans, state->path.blk[i].bp);
1428 state->path.blk[i].bp = NULL;
1429 }
1430
1431 if (state)
^^^^^
To late.
1432 xfs_da_state_free(state);
1433 return error;
1434 }
regards,
dan carpenter
