Re: [PATCH v1] xfs: initialize error in xfs_defer_finish_one

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:49:02AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 12:03:11PM -0700, Sherry Yang wrote:
> > Path through non-void function 'xfs_defer_finish_one' may return error
> > uninitialized if no iteration of 'list_for_each_safe' occurs. Fix this
> > by initializing error.
> 
> I didn't think this situation was possible - how do we get deferred
> work queued with no work items on it?
> 
> If we can return an uninitialised error from xfs_defer_finish_one()
> because of an empty queued work, then something else has gone wrong
> earlier in the work deferral process. If this can actually happen,
> then we need to fix whatever is creating the empty work rather than
> paper over it by initialising the error being returned for empty
> works...

/me bets this is a response to a static checker that doesn't know that
list_empty(&dfp->dfp_work) == false in all circumstances.  It's not
possible for tp->t_dfops to contain an xfs_defer_pending with no work
items.

--D

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com