[PATCH] nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Wed May 13 11:59:36 PDT 2015
On Wednesday 13 May 2015 14:11:43 J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> OK, I guess. How about simplifying slightly and doing it this way?--b
>
> commit 3ae81ac291ec
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Date: Tue May 12 23:31:29 2015 +0200
>
> nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning
>
> gcc-5.0 warns about a potential uninitialized variable use in nfsd:
>
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c: In function 'nfsd4_process_open2':
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:3781:3: warning: 'old_deny_bmap' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> reset_union_bmap_deny(old_deny_bmap, stp);
> ^
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:3760:16: note: 'old_deny_bmap' was declared here
> unsigned char old_deny_bmap;
> ^
>
> This is a false positive, the code path that is warned about cannot
> actually be reached.
>
> This adds an initialization for the variable to make the warning go
> away.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
>
>
Works for me, thanks!
Arnd
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