Re: [PATCH] nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning

[Arnd Bergmann]

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@xxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 

Works for me, thanks!

	Arnd
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