3.16.66-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 29b00e609960ae0fcff382f4c7079dd0874a5311 upstream. When we made the shmem_reserve_inode call in shmem_link conditional, we forgot to update the declaration for ret so that it always has a known value. Dan Carpenter pointed out this deficiency in the original patch. Fixes: 1062af920c07 ("tmpfs: fix link accounting when a tmpfile is linked in") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@ static int shmem_create(struct inode *di static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) { struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode; - int ret; + int ret = 0; /* * No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes;