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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>, dsterba@suse.cz
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix a compiler warning of may be used uninitialized
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:18:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560B9ADF.3050503@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d701d0fb33$cfbc6a80$6f353f80$@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 09/30/15 05:55, Zhao Lei wrote:
>> count is defined iff add_to_ctl == true, so the patch is not necessary. And I'm
>> not quite sure that 0 passed down to __btrfs_add_free_space as 'bytes' makes
>> sense at all.
> 
> Agree above all.
> 
> So I write following description in changelog:
>   "Not real problem, just avoid warning of: ..."
> 
> It is just to avoid complier warning, no function changed.
> A warning in compiler output is not pretty:)

This looks more like a false-positive with gcc 4.8.3.
With 5.2:

..
  CC [M]  fs/btrfs/file-item.o
  CC [M]  fs/btrfs/inode-item.o
  CC [M]  fs/btrfs/inode-map.o
  CC [M]  fs/btrfs/disk-io.o
  CC [M]  fs/btrfs/transaction.o
..

No warning, as expected.

-h


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02  7:19 [PATCH] btrfs: fix a compiler warning of may be used uninitialized Zhao Lei
2015-09-29 14:21 ` David Sterba
2015-09-30  3:55   ` Zhao Lei
2015-09-30  8:18     ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
2015-09-30 14:58     ` David Sterba

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