This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable to the 5.10-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: ext4-fix-potential-unnitialized-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 55f658f4852b25665e6e2344d53aa05a844bb621 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 17 21:10:40 2024 +0300 ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable [ Upstream commit 3f4830abd236d0428e50451e1ecb62e14c365e9b ] Smatch complains "err" can be uninitialized in the caller. fs/ext4/indirect.c:349 ext4_alloc_branch() error: uninitialized symbol 'err'. Set the error to zero on the success path. Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/363a4673-0fb8-4adf-b4fb-90a499077276@moroto.mountain Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 099007ec774c7..87378d08a414b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -5147,6 +5147,7 @@ ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple(struct ext4_allocation_request *ar, int *errp) ext4_mb_mark_bb(sb, block, 1, 1); ar->len = 1; + *errp = 0; return block; }