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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:31:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015053118.GA15552@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAB9DA5.42008138@digeo.com>

On Oct 14, 2002  21:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> btw, gcc-2.91.66 is saying:
> 
> fs/ext2/xattr.c: In function `ext2_xattr_set':
> fs/ext2/xattr.c:612: warning: `block' might be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> But the code is:
> 
>                 int block = EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl;
> 
> which is rather bizarre.  Never seen it do that before.

There's a "goto bad_block" in that function, and it enters _after_
block is set (block is a local variable), so it is impossible for
it to have a valid value.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15  3:33 [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 tytso
2002-10-15  4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-15  5:04   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15  5:31   ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-10-15 13:05     ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 10:26 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-10-15 11:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 13:15   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 15:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 16:04       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-15 16:16         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 16:21           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-15 16:43             ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-15 16:41       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 16:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:34     ` Christoph Hellwig

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