Re: Build warning 'uninitialized variable' in fs/overlayfs

[Amir Goldstein]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
It's not. Should be goto out_revert_creds;

Already sent a fix for that.
Thanks!