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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
	netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] netfs: Fix uninitialized return value in netfs_unbuffered_write()
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:02:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824120224.504575-2-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824120224.504575-1-dhowells@redhat.com>

From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>

If preparation of the first subrequest fails,
netfs_unbuffered_write() exits its loop before ret is initialized. The
empty-iterator check can do the same.

For synchronous writes, netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() may then
return an unrelated error instead of wreq->error. This is reachable
through CIFS if cifs_prepare_write() fails to reopen the file or obtain
credits.

Initialize ret to 0 so the caller returns wreq->error if no data was
written, or the number of bytes already written otherwise.

Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.

Fixes: a0b4c7a49137e ("netfs: Fix unbuffered/DIO writes to dispatch subrequests in strict sequence")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
 fs/netfs/direct_write.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
index c16fbad286a1..b04019097ab8 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int netfs_unbuffered_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq)
 {
 	struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq = NULL;
 	struct netfs_io_stream *stream = &wreq->io_streams[0];
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	_enter("%llx", wreq->len);
 


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-24 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-24 12:02 [PATCH 0/3] netfs, cachefiles: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2026-08-24 12:02 ` David Howells [this message]
2026-08-24 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] netfs: Fix read progress reporting David Howells
2026-08-24 12:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning David Howells

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