On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 09:38:19AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:02:30 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > After merging the btrfs-kdave tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
> >
> > fs/btrfs/inode.c: In function 'run_delalloc_range':
> > fs/btrfs/inode.c:1219:9: warning: 'cur_end' may be used uninitialized in
> > this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> > start = cur_end + 1;
> > ^
> > fs/btrfs/inode.c:1172:6: note: 'cur_end' was declared here
> > u64 cur_end;
> > ^
> >
> > Introduced by commit
> >
> > cow_file_range_async ("btrfs: Introduce COMPRESS reserve type to fix
> > false enospc for compression")
> >
> > Presumably a false positive because ASSERT(0) panics?
>
> Actually it does not if CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT is not set (which it isn't
> for the above build), so this is not a false positive. I am still
> seeing this.
Sorry for late reply. I've updatd the for-next branch now, the patches
introducing the warning have been removed temporarily. Arnd Bergmann
sent a patch to fix the warning, I'll make sure to include it so the
warning does not reappear.
