linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix uninitialized return

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:48:12 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     trix@...hat.com
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, asml.silence@...il.com, nathan@...nel.org,
        usama.arif@...edance.com, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix uninitialized return

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:51 AM <trix@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
>
> The clang build fails with this error
> io_uring.c:9396:9: error: variable 'ret' is uninitialized when used here
>         return ret;
>                ^~~~
> Return 0 directly.
>
> Fixes: b77e315a9644 ("io_uring: avoid ring quiesce while registering/unregistering eventfd")
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>

Thanks for the patch:
See also:
https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/20220207162410.1013466-1-nathan@kernel.org/

> ---
>  fs/io_uring.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
> index aadabb31d6da7..74afb96af214c 100644
> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> @@ -9393,7 +9393,7 @@ static int io_eventfd_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg,
>         ev_fd->eventfd_async = eventfd_async;
>
>         rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->io_ev_fd, ev_fd);
> -       return ret;
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
>  static void io_eventfd_put(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> --
> 2.26.3
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers