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DateTue, 29 May 2007 04:31:12 +0000
From"young dave" <>
SubjectRe: [NFS] [PATCH] NFSD: fix uninitialized variable
Hi,

> Given what you said above, I don't see gcc, on its best day, will ever
> know enough to validate that that variable is indeed always initialized.
>   So I would vote for silencing it on those grounds.

I agree too. How about this one:

diff -dur linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c linux.new/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
--- linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c     2007-05-29 12:28:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.new/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c 2007-05-29 12:30:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -183,8 +183,6 @@
 summarize_posix_acl(struct posix_acl *acl, struct posix_acl_summary *pas)
 {
        struct posix_acl_entry *pa, *pe;
-       pas->users = 0;
-       pas->groups = 0;
        pas->mask = 07;

        pe = acl->a_entries + acl->a_count;
@@ -229,6 +227,7 @@
        int eflag = ((flags & NFS4_ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT) ?
                NFS4_INHERITANCE_FLAGS | NFS4_ACE_INHERIT_ONLY_ACE : 0);

+       memset(pas, 0, sizeof(struct posix_acl_summary);
        BUG_ON(pacl->a_count < 3);
        summarize_posix_acl(pacl, &pas);

Regards
dave
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