linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 51/64] cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines

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Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:05:48 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 51/64] cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patch as commit 0443b01eccbb ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O
> routines") in -next causes the following clang warning/error:
> 
> fs/cachefiles/io.c:489:6: error: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>         if (pos == 0)
>             ^~~~~~~~
> fs/cachefiles/io.c:492:6: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>         if (ret < 0) {
>             ^~~
> fs/cachefiles/io.c:489:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
>         if (pos == 0)
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> fs/cachefiles/io.c:440:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
>         int ret;
>                ^
>                 = 0
> 1 error generated.

	pos = cachefiles_inject_remove_error();
	if (pos == 0)
		ret = vfs_fallocate(file, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,

That should be:

	ret = cachefiles_inject_remove_error();
	if (ret == 0)
		ret = vfs_fallocate(file, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,

David