Build warning 'uninitialized variable' in fs/overlayfs

From: Yury Norov
Date: Wed May 17 2017 - 16:27:13 EST


Hi Amir,

(Sorry for new email, but I cannot find your patch in my mailbox,
though found it in next-20170517)

Your patch 02cac3227a282 (ovl: mark upper dir with type origin entries
"impure") makes gcc warn on uninitialized variables in my arm64 build:
fs/overlayfs/dir.c: In function âovl_renameâ:
fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1060:2: warning: ânewdentryâ may be used
uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
dput(newdentry);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1062:2: warning: âolddentryâ may be used
uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
dput(olddentry);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The patch below fixes warnings for me. But I'm not familiar to the
subsystem and so not sure that the fix is correct.

Yury

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 5ad6ccf2159e..19ee4d294b5e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -973,13 +973,13 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old,
if (ovl_type_origin(old) && !ovl_type_merge(new->d_parent)) {
err = ovl_set_impure(new->d_parent, new_upperdir);
if (err)
- goto out_dput;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
if (!overwrite && ovl_type_origin(new) &&
!ovl_type_merge(old->d_parent)) {
err = ovl_set_impure(old->d_parent, old_upperdir);
if (err)
- goto out_dput;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
}