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Message-Id: <1247561220.2473.0.camel@ht.satnam>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:17:00 +0530
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS: Fix compilation warning
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:44 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
>
> Fix the following warning:
>
> fs/afs/dir.c: In function 'afs_d_revalidate':
> fs/afs/dir.c:567: warning: 'fid.vnode' may be used uninitialized in this function
> fs/afs/dir.c:567: warning: 'fid.unique' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> by marking the 'fid' variable as an uninitialized_var. The problem is that gcc
> doesn't always manage to work out that fid is always set on the path through
> the function that uses it.
>
> Cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> ---
>
Have you tried this approach :
diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 9bd7577..09cb5bb 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -607,53 +607,56 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
/* search the directory for this vnode */
ret = afs_do_lookup(&dir->vfs_inode, dentry, &fid, key);
- switch (ret) {
- case 0:
- /* the filename maps to something */
- if (!dentry->d_inode)
- goto out_bad;
- if (is_bad_inode(dentry->d_inode)) {
- printk("kAFS: afs_d_revalidate: %s/%s has bad inode\n",
- parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ switch (ret) {
+ case -ENOENT:
+ /* the filename is unknown */
+ _debug("%s: dirent not found", dentry->d_name.name);
+ if (dentry->d_inode)
+ goto not_found;
+ goto out_valid;
+
+ default:
+ _debug("failed to iterate dir %s: %d",
+ parent->d_name.name, ret);
goto out_bad;
}
+ }
- /* if the vnode ID has changed, then the dirent points to a
- * different file */
- if (fid.vnode != vnode->fid.vnode) {
- _debug("%s: dirent changed [%u != %u]",
- dentry->d_name.name, fid.vnode,
- vnode->fid.vnode);
- goto not_found;
- }
-
- /* if the vnode ID uniqifier has changed, then the file has
- * been deleted and replaced, and the original vnode ID has
- * been reused */
- if (fid.unique != vnode->fid.unique) {
- _debug("%s: file deleted (uq %u -> %u I:%llu)",
- dentry->d_name.name, fid.unique,
- vnode->fid.unique,
- (unsigned long long)dentry->d_inode->i_version);
- spin_lock(&vnode->lock);
- set_bit(AFS_VNODE_DELETED, &vnode->flags);
- spin_unlock(&vnode->lock);
- goto not_found;
- }
- goto out_valid;
-
- case -ENOENT:
- /* the filename is unknown */
- _debug("%s: dirent not found", dentry->d_name.name);
- if (dentry->d_inode)
- goto not_found;
- goto out_valid;
-
- default:
- _debug("failed to iterate dir %s: %d",
- parent->d_name.name, ret);
+ /* the filename maps to something */
+ if (!dentry->d_inode)
goto out_bad;
+ if (is_bad_inode(dentry->d_inode)) {
+ printk("kAFS: afs_d_revalidate: %s/%s has bad inode\n",
+ parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name);
+ goto out_bad;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * if the vnode ID has changed, then the dirent points to a
+ * different file
+ */
+ if (fid.vnode != vnode->fid.vnode) {
+ _debug("%s: dirent changed [%u != %u]",
+ dentry->d_name.name, fid.vnode, vnode->fid.vnode);
+ goto not_found;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * if the vnode ID uniqifier has changed, then the file has been
+ * deleted and replaced, and the original vnode ID has been reused
+ */
+ if (fid.unique != vnode->fid.unique) {
+ _debug("%s: file deleted (uq %u -> %u I:%llu)",
+ dentry->d_name.name, fid.unique,
+ vnode->fid.unique,
+ (unsigned long long)dentry->d_inode->i_version);
+ spin_lock(&vnode->lock);
+ set_bit(AFS_VNODE_DELETED, &vnode->flags);
+ spin_unlock(&vnode->lock);
+ goto not_found;
}
+ goto out_valid;
out_valid:
dentry->d_fsdata = dir_version;
> fs/afs/dir.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
> index 5272872..790ba9d 100644
> --- a/fs/afs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
> @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static struct dentry *afs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
> {
> struct afs_vnode *vnode, *dir;
> - struct afs_fid fid;
> + struct afs_fid uninitialized_var(fid);
> struct dentry *parent;
> struct key *key;
> void *dir_version;
>
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