Re: [PATCH] - fix compile warning: `found' might be used uninitialized in this function

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 12:27:18 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:45:40AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:48:05AM +0100, roland wrote:
> > > fs/block_dev.c: In function `bd_claim_by_kobject':
> > > fs/block_dev.c:953: warning: `found' might be used uninitialized in this
> > > function
> >
> > found actually _is_ used uninitialized if the call to bd_claim() returns
> > anything but 0.
>
> No, it isn't.
>
> if (res || found)
> free_bd_holder(bo);
>
> `found' won't be evaluated if res!=0.

Oh, thank you very much. So this warning is another gcc false-positive?

> The code in there is irksome - it'd be nice to find some way of
> restructuring it to make it less obscure, and to kill that warning.

Functionscope or filescope? ;)

=Hannes
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