From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/gfs2/dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dir.c b/fs/gfs2/dir.c index 2e5fc268d324..bdef6fef651c 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ static int get_first_leaf(struct gfs2_inode *dip, u32 index, 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; @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ static int dir_split_leaf(struct inode *inode, const struct qstr *name) 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 */ -- 2.12.2