On Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:03:06 AM IST Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Miklos,
>
> After merging the overlayfs tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
>
> fs/overlayfs/super.c: In function 'ovl_fill_super':
> fs/overlayfs/super.c:1070:25: warning: 'numlower' may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> unsigned int stacklen, numlower, i;
> ^
> fs/overlayfs/super.c:1069:15: warning: 'stack' may be used uninitialized in
> this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> struct path *stack;
> ^
>
>
The following trivial patch resolves the warnings,
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index fd11c05..602e686 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1066,8 +1066,8 @@ static struct ovl_entry *ovl_get_lowerstack(struct
super_block *sb,
{
int err;
char *lowertmp, *lower;
- struct path *stack;
- unsigned int stacklen, numlower, i;
+ struct path *stack = NULL;
+ unsigned int stacklen, numlower = 0, i;
bool remote = false;
struct ovl_entry *oe;
--
chandan
