linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix uninitialized variable warning

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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 21:12:04 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Genjian <zhanggenjian123@...il.com>
Cc:     clm@...com, josef@...icpanda.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@...inos.cn>,
        k2ci <kernel-bot@...inos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix uninitialized variable warning

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:08:38AM +0800, Genjian wrote:
> From: Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@...inos.cn>
> 
> compiler warning:
> 
> ../fs/btrfs/volumes.c: In function ‘btrfs_init_new_device’:
> ../fs/btrfs/volumes.c:2703:3: error: ‘seed_devices’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>  2703 |   btrfs_setup_sprout(fs_info, seed_devices);
>       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> ../fs/btrfs/send.c: In function ‘get_cur_inode_state’:
> ../include/linux/compiler.h:70:32: error: ‘right_gen’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>    70 |   (__if_trace.miss_hit[1]++,1) :  \
>       |                                ^
> ../fs/btrfs/send.c:1878:6: note: ‘right_gen’ was declared here
>  1878 |  u64 right_gen;
>       |      ^~~~~~~~~
> 
> Initialize the uninitialized variables.
> 
> Reported-by: k2ci <kernel-bot@...inos.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@...inos.cn>

The warnings are still reported by other build reports so I'll apply
this patch. If you have found more please send a patch or I can update
this one once applied. Thanks.