[ Upstream commit 1dac6f5b0ed2601be21bb4e27a44b0c3e667b7f4 ]

gcc gets a bit confused by the logic in ovl_setup_trap() and
can't figure out whether the local 'trap' variable in the caller
was initialized or not:

fs/overlayfs/super.c: In function 'ovl_fill_super':
fs/overlayfs/super.c:1333:4: error: 'trap' may be used uninitialized in this 
function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
    iput(trap);
    ^~~~~~~~~~
fs/overlayfs/super.c:1312:17: note: 'trap' was declared here

Reword slightly to make it easier for the compiler to understand.

Fixes: 146d62e5a586 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index fa5060f59b88..9780617c69ee 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -996,8 +996,8 @@ static int ovl_setup_trap(struct super_block *sb, struct 
dentry *dir,
        int err;
 
        trap = ovl_get_trap_inode(sb, dir);
-       err = PTR_ERR(trap);
-       if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+       err = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(trap);
+       if (err) {
                if (err == -ELOOP)
                        pr_err("overlayfs: conflicting %s path\n", name);
                return err;
-- 
2.20.1



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