From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:50:26 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: block: fix bogus gcc warning for uninitialized var usage
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b2bf968;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

block: fix bogus gcc warning for uninitialized var usage

Newer gcc throw this warning:

        fs/bio.c: In function ?bio_alloc_bioset?:
        fs/bio.c:305: warning: ?p? may be used uninitialized in this function

since it cannot figure out that 'p' is only ever used if 'bs' is non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 72ab251cdb9c..124b95c4d582 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ void bio_init(struct bio *bio)
 struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs, struct bio_set *bs)
 {
 	struct bio *bio = NULL;
-	void *p;
+	void *uninitialized_var(p);
 
 	if (bs) {
 		p = mempool_alloc(bs->bio_pool, gfp_mask);