The patch titled fsnotify: initialize mask in fsnotify_perm has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fsnotify-initialize-mask-in-fsnotify_perm.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fsnotify: initialize mask in fsnotify_perm From: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> akpm got a warning the fsnotify_mask could be used uninitialized in fsnotify_perm(). It's not actually possible but his compiler complained about it. This patch just initializes it to 0 to shut up the compiler. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fsnotify.h | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/fsnotify.h~fsnotify-initialize-mask-in-fsnotify_perm include/linux/fsnotify.h --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h~fsnotify-initialize-mask-in-fsnotify_perm +++ a/include/linux/fsnotify.h @@ -39,16 +39,18 @@ static inline int fsnotify_perm(struct f { struct path *path = &file->f_path; struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode; - __u32 fsnotify_mask; + __u32 fsnotify_mask = 0; if (file->f_mode & FMODE_NONOTIFY) return 0; if (!(mask & (MAY_READ | MAY_OPEN))) return 0; - if (mask & MAY_READ) - fsnotify_mask = FS_ACCESS_PERM; if (mask & MAY_OPEN) fsnotify_mask = FS_OPEN_PERM; + else if (mask & MAY_READ) + fsnotify_mask = FS_ACCESS_PERM; + else + BUG(); return fsnotify(inode, fsnotify_mask, path, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH, NULL, 0); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from eparis@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch include-linux-fsh-complete-hexification-of-fmode_-constants.patch fsnotify-initialize-mask-in-fsnotify_perm.patch include-linux-fsnotifyh-squash-warning.patch vfs-o_-bit-numbers-uniqueness-check.patch ext3-fixup-rb_root-initializations-to-use-rb_root.patch -- 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