Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Oct 28 2005, Keith Owens wrote:
> fs/bio.c: In function 'bio_alloc_bioset':
> fs/bio.c:167: warning: 'idx' may be used uninitialized in this function

This is bogus. bio_alloc_bioset() passes in a pointer to a long which
bvec_alloc_bs() always fills, _unless_ it returns NULL. In the NULL case
we never use 'idx' (quite obvious, we bail immediately).

I didn't check the other warnings, but there may be similar cases in
other paths.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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