[PATCH] staging: erofs: initialize `pblk' with 0 first in `z_erofs_map_blocks_iter'

Gao Xiang gaoxiang25 at huawei.com
Wed Sep 19 00:06:09 AEST 2018


Hi Greg,

On 2018/9/18 21:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:44:36PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> This commit message helps to understand why `pblk' is assigned with 0 here.
>>
>> [ Greg reported a warning raised by gcc. ]
>> In file included from drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.h:16:0,
>>                  from drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c:13:
>> drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c: In function ‘z_erofs_map_blocks_iter’:
>> drivers/staging/erofs/internal.h:303:34: warning: ‘pblk’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>  #define blknr_to_addr(nr)       ((erofs_off_t)(nr) * EROFS_BLKSIZ)
>>                                   ^
>> drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c:1574:20: note: ‘pblk’ was declared here
>>   erofs_blk_t mblk, pblk;
>>                     ^~~~
>>
>> Actually, it is a false-positive warning when looking into that. [1]
>> Just initialize the variable to keep gcc from printing foolish warnings.
>>
>> [1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linux-erofs/2018-September/000637.html
>>
>> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>> Thanks-to: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25 at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Please roll this into the original patch.  I have dropped that whole
> series from my tree, it is no longer present and needs to be resent in
> order for me to be able to accept any of these.

OK, will send. it's my honor.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


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