Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

From: Qiang Ma

Date: Thu Dec 18 2025 - 22:11:47 EST



在 2025/12/19 04:37, David Sterba 写道:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 04:16:18PM +0800, Qiang Ma wrote:
Fix a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning by initializing
the variable to NULL.

$ make CFLAGS_tree-log.o=-Wmaybe-uninitialized

In file included from fs/btrfs/ctree.h:21,
from fs/btrfs/tree-log.c:12:
fs/btrfs/accessors.h: In function 'replay_one_buffer':
fs/btrfs/accessors.h:66:16: warning: 'inode_item' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
66 | return btrfs_get_##bits(eb, s, offsetof(type, member)); \
| ^~~~~~~~~~
fs/btrfs/tree-log.c:2803:42: note: 'inode_item' declared here
2803 | struct btrfs_inode_item *inode_item;
| ^~~~~~~~~~

Warning was found when compiling using loongarch64-gcc 12.3.1.
We have the -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning enabled per fs/btrfs/
directory, there are no other known reports fixing the uninitialized
inode_item so this might be specific to loongarch gcc 12.x. I'll add the
Yes, x86 and arm64 did not report this warning issue.
patch to for-next as we still want to get all the warnings fixed, thanks.