This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: reflink: initialize return value to 0 in btrfs_extent_same() to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: btrfs-reflink-initialize-return-value-to-0-in-btrfs_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 313ca18df406792deb2b4d3b79560092bd88b911 Author: Sidong Yang <realwakka@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 26 14:44:36 2021 +0000 btrfs: reflink: initialize return value to 0 in btrfs_extent_same() [ Upstream commit 44bee215f72f13874c0e734a0712c2e3264c0108 ] Fix a warning reported by smatch that ret could be returned without initialized. The dedupe operations are supposed to to return 0 for a 0 length range but the caller does not pass olen == 0. To keep this behaviour and also fix the warning initialize ret to 0. Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sidong Yang <realwakka@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c index 9b0814318e726..c71e49782e86d 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static int btrfs_extent_same_range(struct inode *src, u64 loff, u64 len, static int btrfs_extent_same(struct inode *src, u64 loff, u64 olen, struct inode *dst, u64 dst_loff) { - int ret; + int ret = 0; u64 i, tail_len, chunk_count; struct btrfs_root *root_dst = BTRFS_I(dst)->root;