This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: initialize location to fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized in btrfs_lookup_dentry() to the 4.19-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-initialize-location-to-fix-wmaybe-uninitialize.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d2744c2f15f98b9e94c2f6bf5890a0afa461fd2b Author: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 29 21:59:24 2024 +0200 btrfs: initialize location to fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized in btrfs_lookup_dentry() [ Upstream commit b8e947e9f64cac9df85a07672b658df5b2bcff07 ] Some arch + compiler combinations report a potentially unused variable location in btrfs_lookup_dentry(). This is a false alert as the variable is passed by value and always valid or there's an error. The compilers cannot probably reason about that although btrfs_inode_by_name() is in the same file. > + /kisskb/src/fs/btrfs/inode.c: error: 'location.objectid' may be used +uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]: => 5603:9 > + /kisskb/src/fs/btrfs/inode.c: error: 'location.type' may be used +uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]: => 5674:5 m68k-gcc8/m68k-allmodconfig mips-gcc8/mips-allmodconfig powerpc-gcc5/powerpc-all{mod,yes}config powerpc-gcc5/ppc64_defconfig Initialize it to zero, this should fix the warnings and won't change the behaviour as btrfs_inode_by_name() accepts only a root or inode item types, otherwise returns an error. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/bd4e9928-17b3-9257-8ba7-6b7f9bbb639a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index 15ebebed4005..22059aa5eb26 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -5869,7 +5869,7 @@ struct inode *btrfs_lookup_dentry(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) struct inode *inode; struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(dir)->root; struct btrfs_root *sub_root = root; - struct btrfs_key location; + struct btrfs_key location = { 0 }; u8 di_type = 0; int index; int ret = 0;