linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.11

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Date:	Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:18:32 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.11

Hmm I'm getting this compiler warning:

  fs/ext4/inode.c: In function ‘ext4_writepages’:
  fs/ext4/inode.c:2219:6: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in
this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

and I think the compiler is right to warn. The 'err' variable is set
inside a whilte() and an if() statement, and it is not at all obvious
that those codepaths are always taken.

Maybe that "map->m_len" is always guaranteed to be nonzero, and the
"while()" statement could be a "do { } while()" one. But if so, make
it so, don't write code as if it might never be executed, when the
return value seems to *depend* on it being executed.

Or just initialize the variable correctly.

This warning may not be new to this pull, I just happened to notice it now.

                Linus
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