linux-kernel - [PATCH] jfs: fix bogus variable self-initialization

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Message-Id: <20190322141922.691391-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:19:16 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>
Cc:     clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] jfs: fix bogus variable self-initialization

A statement was originally added in 2006 to shut up a gcc warning,
now but now clang warns about it:

fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:1932:15: error: variable 'pxd' is uninitialized when used within its own initialization
      [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
                pxd_t pxd = pxd;        /* truncated extent of xad */
                      ~~~   ^~~

Modern versions of gcc are fine without the silly assignment, so just
drop it. Tested with gcc-4.6 (released 2011), 4.7, 4.8, and 4.9.

Fixes: c9e3ad6021e5 ("JFS: Get rid of "may be used uninitialized" warnings")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
index a5663cb621d8..78789c5ed36b 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
@@ -1928,8 +1928,7 @@ static void xtLog(struct jfs_log * log, struct tblock * tblk, struct lrd * lrd,
 	 * header ?
 	 */
 	if (tlck->type & tlckTRUNCATE) {
-		/* This odd declaration suppresses a bogus gcc warning */
-		pxd_t pxd = pxd;	/* truncated extent of xad */
+		pxd_t pxd;	/* truncated extent of xad */
 		int twm;
 
 		/*
-- 
2.20.0