Re: [bug report] xfs: Add delay ready attr remove routines

[Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>]

On 6/17/21 7:22 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Allison Henderson,
> 
> The patch 2b74b03c13c4: "xfs: Add delay ready attr remove routines"
> from Apr 26, 2021, leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c:1481 xfs_attr_remove_iter()
> 	error: uninitialized symbol 'error'.
> 
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
>    1469                          return -EAGAIN;
>    1470                  }
>    1471
>    1472                  /* fallthrough */
>    1473          case XFS_DAS_RM_SHRINK:
>    1474                  /*
>    1475                   * If the result is small enough, push it all into the inode.
>    1476                   * This is our final state so it's safe to return a dirty
>    1477                   * transaction.
>    1478                   */
>    1479                  if (xfs_attr_is_leaf(dp))
>    1480                          error = xfs_attr_node_shrink(args, state);
>    1481                  ASSERT(error != -EAGAIN);
> 
> Not initialized on the else path.  It should be zero right?
Hi Dan,

Thanks for the catch, I just noticed this report.  I will sent out a 
patch initializing error at the start of the function.  That should take 
care of this warning.

Thx!
Allison
> 
>    1482                  break;
>    1483          default:
>    1484                  ASSERT(0);
>    1485                  error = -EINVAL;
>    1486                  goto out;
>    1487          }
>    1488  out:
>    1489          if (state)
>    1490                  xfs_da_state_free(state);
>    1491          return error;
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> returned here.
> 
>    1492  }
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>