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authorAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>2012-09-12 16:31:13 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-09-13 20:10:49 +0200
commitb9d6cfdeaf67cc34cdfd53ab234358dd2910a0f4 (patch)
tree15532d5a553ca1d3eec6caa15d8242ec3576d1d4 /fs/xattr.c
parentfs: add missing documentation to simple_xattr functions (diff)
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xattr: mark variable as uninitialized to make both gcc and smatch happy
new_xattr in __simple_xattr_set() is only initialized with a valid pointer if value is not NULL, which only happens if this function is called directly with the intention to remove an existing extended attribute. Even being safe to be this way, smatch warns about possible NULL dereference. Dan Carpenter suggested using uninitialized_var() which will make both gcc and smatch happy. Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index f053c1135d0f..014f11321fd9 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ static int __simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name,
const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
struct simple_xattr *xattr;
- struct simple_xattr *new_xattr = NULL;
+ struct simple_xattr *uninitialized_var(new_xattr);
int err = 0;
/* value == NULL means remove */