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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com
Subject: Re: use of uninitialized pointer in jffs_create()
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050822230758.GL9927@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050822104559.GA11876@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

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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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-20 22:28 use of uninitialized pointer in jffs_create() Jesper Juhl
2005-08-21  9:14 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-08-21 11:47   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-22  5:21     ` Stephane Wirtel
2005-08-22 10:45 ` Jörn Engel
2005-08-22 23:07   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-08-23  9:07     ` Jörn Engel

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