This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix return of uninitialized rc in dfs_cache_update_tgthint() to the 6.1-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: cifs-fix-return-of-uninitialized-rc-in-dfs_cache_upd.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ba7423790a7e14c9424ede0cbfd4023a154a4c1d Author: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 18 13:36:31 2023 -0300 cifs: fix return of uninitialized rc in dfs_cache_update_tgthint() [ Upstream commit d6a49e8c4ca4d399ed65ac219585187fc8c2e2b1 ] Fix this by initializing rc to 0 as cache_refresh_path() would not set it in case of success. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202301190004.bEHvbKG6-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c index 4302dc75843c..3bc1d3494be3 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c @@ -1050,10 +1050,10 @@ int dfs_cache_update_tgthint(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses, const struct nls_table *cp, int remap, const char *path, const struct dfs_cache_tgt_iterator *it) { - int rc; - const char *npath; - struct cache_entry *ce; struct cache_dfs_tgt *t; + struct cache_entry *ce; + const char *npath; + int rc = 0; npath = dfs_cache_canonical_path(path, cp, remap); if (IS_ERR(npath))