Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix uninitialized return

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Feb 07 2022 - 14:53:29 EST


On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:51 AM <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The clang build fails with this error
> io_uring.c:9396:9: error: variable 'ret' is uninitialized when used here
> return ret;
> ^~~~
> Return 0 directly.
>
> Fixes: b77e315a9644 ("io_uring: avoid ring quiesce while registering/unregistering eventfd")
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch:
See also:
https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/20220207162410.1013466-1-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx/

> ---
> fs/io_uring.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
> index aadabb31d6da7..74afb96af214c 100644
> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> @@ -9393,7 +9393,7 @@ static int io_eventfd_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg,
> ev_fd->eventfd_async = eventfd_async;
>
> rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->io_ev_fd, ev_fd);
> - return ret;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static void io_eventfd_put(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> --
> 2.26.3
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers