Patch "reiserfs: fix "new_insert_key may be used uninitialized ..."" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    reiserfs: fix "new_insert_key may be used uninitialized ..."

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     reiserfs-fix-new_insert_key-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0a11b9aae49adf1f952427ef1a1d9e793dd6ffb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:05:33 -0700
Subject: reiserfs: fix "new_insert_key may be used uninitialized ..."

From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>

commit 0a11b9aae49adf1f952427ef1a1d9e793dd6ffb6 upstream.

new_insert_key only makes any sense when it's associated with a
new_insert_ptr, which is initialized to NULL and changed to a
buffer_head when we also initialize new_insert_key.  We can key off of
that to avoid the uninitialized warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5eca5ffb-2155-8df2-b4a2-f162f105efed@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c
@@ -1153,8 +1153,9 @@ int balance_internal(struct tree_balance
 				       insert_ptr);
 	}
 
-	memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
 	insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr;
+	if (new_insert_ptr)
+		memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
 
 	return order;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@suse.com are

queue-4.4/reiserfs-fix-new_insert_key-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch