Re: [PATCH] FS-Cache: Add missing initialization of ret in cachefiles_write_page()

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Nov 12 2015 - 05:43:02 EST


Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This isn't quite the right solution. The uninitialised error path needs to
> > set -ENOBUFS.
>
> That's what your commit 102f4d900c9c8f5e ("FS-Cache: Handle a write to the
> page immediately beyond the EOF marker") does, and is also in its commit
> description:
>
> Whilst we're at it, change the triggered assertion in CacheFiles to just
> return -ENOBUFS instead.
>
> "ret" is used only to print the original error in a debug message.

I'll adjust your patch to set the default value in ret to be -ENOBUFS instead
of 0.

> > Unfortunately, my compiler doesn't show a warning:-/
>
> Need old gcc (4.1.2 ;-)

Quite possibly - gcc-5.1 does seem to be a bit lacking in detection of such
things.

David
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