Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix sparse, using plain integer as NULL pointer in lov_object_fiemap()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 12:25:03 EST


On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 09:53 +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:44:32PM +0200, Andrii Vladyka wrote:
> > Change 0 to NULL in lov_object_fiemap() in order to fix warning produced by
> > sparse
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrii Vladyka <tulup@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_object.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_object.c
> > index 105b707..897cf2c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_object.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_object.c
> > @@ -1335,7 +1335,7 @@ static int lov_object_fiemap(const struct lu_env *env, struct cl_object *obj,
> > int rc = 0;
> > int cur_stripe;
> > int stripe_count;
> > - struct fiemap_state fs = { 0 };
> > + struct fiemap_state fs = { NULL };
> > lsm = lov_lsm_addref(cl2lov(obj));
> > if (!lsm)
>
> Patch is corrupted, and can not apply, please fix up your email client
> and try it again.

It would be better to use {} to clear the struct
rather than any member initialization.