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authorHarshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>2021-12-01 19:34:21 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-01-27 13:05:16 +0300
commit85cc4554eea845ae0a1b06f43df6b566ff6776d2 (patch)
treed72eaf37a1e3d9dbec02295f96ee9a02d9f5e4d4 /fs/ext4
parent2d221d9b17fa3065ba7c3afd8ff0a8e1f2818497 (diff)
downloadlinux-85cc4554eea845ae0a1b06f43df6b566ff6776d2.tar.xz
ext4: initialize err_blk before calling __ext4_get_inode_loc
commit c27c29c6af4f3f4ce925a2111c256733c5a5b430 upstream. It is not guaranteed that __ext4_get_inode_loc will definitely set err_blk pointer when it returns EIO. To avoid using uninitialized variables, let's first set err_blk to 0. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201163421.2631661-1-harshads@google.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 9097fccdc688..607b11852630 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4371,7 +4371,7 @@ has_buffer:
static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode,
struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
{
- ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+ ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
int ret;
ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, iloc, 0,
@@ -4386,7 +4386,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode,
int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
{
- ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+ ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
int ret;
/* We have all inode data except xattrs in memory here. */