Re: use of uninitialized pointer in jffs_create()

Adrian Bunk
2005-08-22T23:08:06Z

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:45:59PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Sun, 21 August 2005 00:28:08 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > gcc kindly pointed me at jffs_create() with this warning :
> >
> > fs/jffs/inode-v23.c:1279: warning: `inode' might be used uninitialized
> > in this function
>
> Real fix would be to finally remove that code. Except for the usual
> "change this function in the whole kernel" stuff, noone has touched it
> for ages.

That's wrong, this -mm specific bug comes git-ocfs2.patch .

> Jörn

cu
Adrian

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