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

[David Sterba]

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
patch to for-next as we still want to get all the warnings fixed, thanks.