This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gfs2: avoid uninitialized variable warning
to the 4.4-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:
gfs2-avoid-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 67893f12e5374bbcaaffbc6e570acbc2714ea884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:08:10 -0500
Subject: gfs2: avoid uninitialized variable warning
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit 67893f12e5374bbcaaffbc6e570acbc2714ea884 upstream.
We get a bogus warning about a potential uninitialized variable
use in gfs2, because the compiler does not figure out that we
never use the leaf number if get_leaf_nr() returns an error:
fs/gfs2/dir.c: In function 'get_first_leaf':
fs/gfs2/dir.c:802:9: warning: 'leaf_no' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
fs/gfs2/dir.c: In function 'dir_split_leaf':
fs/gfs2/dir.c:1021:8: warning: 'leaf_no' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
Changing the 'if (!error)' to 'if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(error))' is
sufficient to let gcc understand that this is exactly the same
condition as in IS_ERR() so it can optimize the code path enough
to understand it.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/gfs2/dir.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static int get_first_leaf(struct gfs2_in
int error;
error = get_leaf_nr(dip, index, &leaf_no);
- if (!error)
+ if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(error))
error = get_leaf(dip, leaf_no, bh_out);
return error;
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ static int dir_split_leaf(struct inode *
index = name->hash >> (32 - dip->i_depth);
error = get_leaf_nr(dip, index, &leaf_no);
- if (error)
+ if (IS_ERR_VALUE(error))
return error;
/* Get the old leaf block */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tty-nozomi-avoid-a-harmless-gcc-warning.patch
queue-4.4/gfs2-avoid-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch
queue-4.4/hostap-avoid-uninitialized-variable-use-in-hfa384x_get_rid.patch