tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git fscache-rewrite-indexing head: 5914ee72cd59ac43f27adae6340e8219592462d5 commit: b91996136a2f21b2815b8946274abe7064a7dceb [78/80] cachefiles: Don't set object->file until after open is successful config: hexagon-buildonly-randconfig-r005-20211012 (attached as .config) compiler: clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project c3dcf39554dbea780d6cb7e12239451ba47a2668) reproduce (this is a W=1 build): wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/com... git remote add dhowells-fs https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git git fetch --no-tags dhowells-fs fscache-rewrite-indexing git checkout b91996136a2f21b2815b8946274abe7064a7dceb # save the attached .config to linux build tree COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 ARCH=hexagon If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com&gt; All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): if (!cachefiles_open_file(object, dentry)) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/cachefiles/namei.c:412:6: note: uninitialized use occurs here if (ret == -EIO) ^~~ fs/cachefiles/namei.c:403:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!cachefiles_open_file(object, dentry)) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/cachefiles/namei.c:378:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning int ret; ^ = 0 1 error generated. vim +403 fs/cachefiles/namei.c 369 370 /* 371 * walk from the parent object to the child object through the backing 372 * filesystem, creating directories as we go 373 */ 374 bool cachefiles_look_up_object(struct cachefiles_object *object) 375 { 376 struct cachefiles_volume *volume = object->volume; 377 struct dentry *dentry, *fan = volume->fanout[(u8)object->key_hash]; 378 int ret; 379 380 _enter("OBJ%x,%s,", object->debug_id, object->d_name); 381 382 /* Look up path "cache/vol/fanout/file". */ 383 dentry = lookup_positive_unlocked(object->d_name, fan, object->d_name_len); 384 trace_cachefiles_lookup(object, dentry); 385 if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { 386 if (dentry == ERR_PTR(-ENOENT)) 387 goto new_file; 388 ret = PTR_ERR(dentry); 389 goto lookup_error; 390 } 391 392 if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) { 393 pr_err("%pd is not a file\n", dentry); 394 inode_lock_nested(d_inode(fan), I_MUTEX_PARENT); 395 ret = cachefiles_bury_object(volume->cache, object, fan, dentry, 396 FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_WEIRD); 397 dput(dentry); 398 if (ret < 0) 399 return false; 400 goto new_file; 401 } 402 404 goto lookup_error; 405 406 _leave(" = t [%lu]", file_inode(object->file)->i_ino); 407 return true; 408 409 new_file: 410 return cachefiles_create_file(object); 411 lookup_error: 412 if (ret == -EIO) 413 cachefiles_io_error_obj(object, "Lookup failed"); 414 return false; 415 } 416 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org