The patch titled Subject: reiserfs: avoid uninitialized variable use has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was reiserfs-avoid-uninitialized-variable-use.patch This patch was dropped because it was nacked ------------------------------------------------------ From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Subject: reiserfs: avoid uninitialized variable use I got this warning on an ARM64 allmodconfig build with gcc-5.3: fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c: In function 'balance_internal': fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c:1158:3: error: 'new_insert_key' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE); The warning is correct, in fact both new_insert_key and new_insert_ptr are only updated inside of an if() block, but used at the end of the function. Looking at how the balance_internal() function gets called, it is clear that this is harmless because the caller never uses the updated arrays, they are initialized from balance_leaf_new_nodes() and then passed into balance_internal(). This has not changed at all since the start of the git history, but apparently the warning has only recently appeared. This modifies the function to only update the two argument variables when the new_insert_key and new_insert_ptr have been updated, to get rid of the warning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464380569-3493380-1-git-send-email-arnd@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c~reiserfs-avoid-uninitialized-variable-use fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c --- a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c~reiserfs-avoid-uninitialized-variable-use +++ a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c @@ -1138,6 +1138,9 @@ int balance_internal(struct tree_balance S_new); /* S_new is released in unfix_nodes */ + + memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE); + insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr; } n = B_NR_ITEMS(tbSh); /*number of items in S[h] */ @@ -1153,8 +1156,5 @@ int balance_internal(struct tree_balance insert_ptr); } - memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE); - insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr; - return order; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html