From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:20:04 +0200 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [2.6 patch] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't use an uninitialized variable Message-ID: <20061019132003.GN3502@stusta.de> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the "if (extlen)" case, "new" might be used uninitialized. Looking at the code, it should be initialized to 0. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/dir.c.old 2006-10-19 01:08:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/dir.c 2006-10-19 01:08:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -169,37 +169,37 @@ static int gfs2_dir_write_data(struct gf return gfs2_dir_write_stuffed(ip, buf, (unsigned int)offset, size); if (gfs2_assert_warn(sdp, gfs2_is_jdata(ip))) return -EINVAL; if (gfs2_is_stuffed(ip)) { error = gfs2_unstuff_dinode(ip, NULL); if (error) return error; } lblock = offset; o = do_div(lblock, sdp->sd_jbsize) + sizeof(struct gfs2_meta_header); while (copied < size) { unsigned int amount; struct buffer_head *bh; - int new; + int new = 0; amount = size - copied; if (amount > sdp->sd_sb.sb_bsize - o) amount = sdp->sd_sb.sb_bsize - o; if (!extlen) { new = 1; error = gfs2_extent_map(&ip->i_inode, lblock, &new, &dblock, &extlen); if (error) goto fail; error = -EIO; if (gfs2_assert_withdraw(sdp, dblock)) goto fail; } if (amount == sdp->sd_jbsize || new) error = gfs2_dir_get_new_buffer(ip, dblock, &bh);