Re: [PATCH next] fuse: Uninitialized variable in fuse_epoch_work()

From: Dan Carpenter

Date: Fri Nov 21 2025 - 12:43:26 EST


On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 01:53:48PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21 2025, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> > The "fm" pointer is either valid or uninitialized so checking for NULL
> > doesn't work. Check the "inode" pointer instead.
>
> Hmm? Why do you say 'fm' isn't initialised? That's what fuse_ilookup()
> is doing, isn't it?
>

I just checked again on linux-next. fuse_ilookup() only initializes
*fm on the success path. It's either uninitialized or valid.

regards,
dan carpenter