From: David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Btrfs: silence a compiler warning
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:29:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120222162926.GA25392@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120222073055.GB7389@elgon.mountain>
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:30:55AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>Gcc warns that "ret" can be used uninitialized. It can't actually be
>used uninitialized because btrfs_num_copies() always returns 1 or more.
>
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
>diff --git a/fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c b/fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
>index 064b29b..c053e90 100644
>--- a/fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
>+++ b/fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
>@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ static struct btrfsic_dev_state *btrfsic_dev_state_hashtable_lookup(
> static int btrfsic_process_superblock(struct btrfsic_state *state,
> struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices)
> {
>- int ret;
>+ int ret = 0;
Does
int uninitialized_var(ret);
work? The assignment to zero actually generates additional
(unnecessary) code.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 7:30 [patch] Btrfs: silence a compiler warning Dan Carpenter
2012-02-22 16:29 ` David Brown [this message]
2012-02-22 16:37 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-02-22 19:41 ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
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