From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:28:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051028072833.GE11441@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5455.1130484079@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Fri, Oct 28 2005, Keith Owens wrote:
> fs/bio.c: In function 'bio_alloc_bioset':
> fs/bio.c:167: warning: 'idx' may be used uninitialized in this function
This is bogus. bio_alloc_bioset() passes in a pointer to a long which
bvec_alloc_bs() always fills, _unless_ it returns NULL. In the NULL case
we never use 'idx' (quite obvious, we bail immediately).
I didn't check the other warnings, but there may be similar cases in
other paths.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-28 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-28 7:21 2.6.14 assorted warnings Keith Owens
2005-10-28 7:28 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-10-28 7:30 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-28 8:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-10-28 8:29 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-29 5:59 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-29 6:03 ` Al Viro
2005-10-28 8:10 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-30 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-30 22:25 ` Al Viro
2005-10-30 22:32 ` Al Viro
2005-10-30 22:29 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-10-31 0:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-31 0:57 ` Al Viro
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