[bug report] compiler warning: fs/f2fs/node.c: In function â__set_nat_cache_dirtyâ: âheadâ may be used uninitialized

From: Ardelean, Alexandru
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 10:02:50 EST


Seems to have been introduced via:

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commit 780de47cf6cb5f524cd98ec8ffbffc3da5696e17
Author: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 20 23:08:30 2018 +0800

f2fs: don't track new nat entry in nat set

Nat entry set is used only in checkpoint(), and during checkpoint() we
won't flush new nat entry with unallocated address, so we don't need to
add new nat entry into nat set, then nat_entry_set::entry_cnt can
indicate actual entry count we need to flush in checkpoint().

Signed-off-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Compiler warning is:
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CC fs/f2fs/node.o
In file included from ./include/linux/wait.h:7:0,
from ./include/linux/wait_bit.h:8,
from ./include/linux/fs.h:6,
from fs/f2fs/node.c:11:
fs/f2fs/node.c: In function â__set_nat_cache_dirtyâ:
./include/linux/list.h:63:13: error: âheadâ may be used uninitialized in
this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
next->prev = new;
^
fs/f2fs/node.c:238:24: note: âheadâ was declared here
struct nat_entry_set *head;
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
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Thanks
Alex