linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable

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Message-ID: <171512302197.3602678.10166283423942285304.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Tue,  7 May 2024 19:03:50 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable


On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:10:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch complains "err" can be uninitialized in the caller.
> 
>     fs/ext4/indirect.c:349 ext4_alloc_branch()
>     error: uninitialized symbol 'err'.
> 
> Set the error to zero on the success path.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable
      commit: 3f4830abd236d0428e50451e1ecb62e14c365e9b

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>