On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A rewrite of btrfs_submit_direct_hook appears to have introduced a warning:
>
> fs/btrfs/inode.c: In function 'btrfs_submit_direct_hook':
> fs/btrfs/inode.c:8467:14: error: 'bio' may be used uninitialized in this
> function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> Where the 'bio' variable was previously initialized unconditionally, it
> is now set in the "while (submit_len > 0)" loop that would never execute
> if submit_len is zero.
>
> Assuming this cannot happen in practice, we can avoid the warning
> by simply replacing the while{} loop with a do{}while() loop so
> the compiler knows that it will always be entered at least once.
>
Thanks for the fix. I think it's a false positve one and I've updated it in v2
with a 'struct bio *bio = NULL' to make compiler happy, could you please help
reveiw it?
Thanks,
-liubo
> Fixes: 0fd27e06c61b ("Btrfs: use bio_clone_bioset_partial to simplify DIO
> submit")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> ---
> ---
> fs/btrfs/inode.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> index 8c37b4fa4cbb..c62cf9593cb3 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> @@ -8497,7 +8497,7 @@ static int btrfs_submit_direct_hook(struct
> btrfs_dio_private *dip,
> /* bio split */
> ASSERT(map_length <= INT_MAX);
> atomic_inc(&dip->pending_bios);
> - while (submit_len > 0) {
> + do {
> clone_len = min_t(int, submit_len, map_length);
>
> /*
> @@ -8540,7 +8540,7 @@ static int btrfs_submit_direct_hook(struct
> btrfs_dio_private *dip,
> start_sector << 9, &map_length, NULL, 0);
> if (ret)
> goto out_err;
> - }
> + } while (submit_len > 0);
>
> submit:
> ret = __btrfs_submit_dio_bio(bio, inode, file_offset, skip_sum,
> --
> 2.9.0
>
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