Re: [PATCH 2/5] repair: fix some valgrind reported errors on i686

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:11:47AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Fix a potential prefetch read problem due to the first loop
> execution of pf_batch_read potentially not initialising the fsbno
> varaible:

variable.

> 
> ==10177== Thread 6:
> ==10177== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==10177==    at 0x8079CAB: pf_batch_read (prefetch.c:408)
> ==10177==    by 0x6A2996D: clone (clone.S:130)
> ==10177==
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  repair/prefetch.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/repair/prefetch.c b/repair/prefetch.c
> index d2fdf90..da074a8 100644
> --- a/repair/prefetch.c
> +++ b/repair/prefetch.c
> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ pf_batch_read(
>  	int			len, size;
>  	int			i;
>  	int			inode_bufs;
> -	unsigned long		fsbno;
> +	unsigned long		fsbno = 0;

Call me stupid, but I can't see how this could actually be a real
life issue.  The first thing we do in the loop is to to write
to fsbno in btree_find.  I'm fine adding this to shut up warnins,
but I can't see a real issue.

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