[PATCH] block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store

[Arnd Bergmann]

As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions
that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether
that value was set or not.

block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot':
block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive,
writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has
an undefined result, rather than returning an error.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 6206a93..5efc5a6 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ queue_store_##name(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count) \
 	unsigned long val;						\
 	ssize_t ret;							\
 	ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count);			\
+	if (ret < 0)							\
+		 return ret;						\
 	if (neg)							\
 		val = !val;						\
 									\
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