[PATCH 4.9 041/118] tmpfs: fix uninitialized return value in shmem_link

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 29b00e609960ae0fcff382f4c7079dd0874a5311 ]

When we made the shmem_reserve_inode call in shmem_link conditional, we
forgot to update the declaration for ret so that it always has a known
value.  Dan Carpenter pointed out this deficiency in the original patch.

Fixes: 1062af920c07 ("tmpfs: fix link accounting when a tmpfile is linked in")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 214773472530..944242491059 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2896,7 +2896,7 @@ static int shmem_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
 static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = d_inode(old_dentry);
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes;
-- 
2.19.1