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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: rathamahata@php4.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] befs: fix sparse warning in linuxvfs.c
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:23:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203110626.15275.42.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080215131922.0d0dcb08.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:04 -0800
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Use link as the variable name to avoid shadowing the arg.
> > 
> > fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:492:8: warning: symbol 'p' shadows an earlier one
> > fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:488:77: originally declared here
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > This should be checked in case there is a latent bug here.  Should it
> > be the arg *p getting freed, or the local var *p that was shadowing
> > it?
> > 
> 
> The code looks OK - the name was allocated in befs_follow_link() and was
> saved away with nd_set_link().

OK, that's as far as I got as well, but don't know the area well enough
to be sure, hence the caveat.

Harvey


      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15 18:46 Harvey Harrison
2008-02-15 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-15 21:23   ` Harvey Harrison [this message]

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