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From: Alessandro Zanni <alessandro.zanni87@gmail.com>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz
Cc: Alessandro Zanni <alessandro.zanni87@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org, anupnewsmail@gmail.com,
	alessandrozanni.dev@gmail.com,
	syzbot+6c55f725d1bdc8c52058@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:37:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241016123723.171588-1-alessandro.zanni87@gmail.com> (raw)

Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid by initializing the newattrs
structure in do_truncate() method.

Fixes: uninit-value in from_kuid reported here
 https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6c55f725d1bdc8c52058
Reported-by: syzbot+6c55f725d1bdc8c52058@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6c55f725d1bdc8c52058
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zanni <alessandro.zanni87@gmail.com>
---
 fs/open.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index acaeb3e25c88..57c298b1db2c 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int do_truncate(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
 		loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs, struct file *filp)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct iattr newattrs;
+	struct iattr newattrs = {0};
 
 	/* Not pretty: "inode->i_size" shouldn't really be signed. But it is. */
 	if (length < 0)
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-16 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-16 12:37 Alessandro Zanni [this message]
2024-10-16 13:23 ` [PATCH] fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid Jan Kara
2024-10-16 14:52   ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-17  9:22     ` Alessandro Zanni
2024-10-17  9:58       ` Jan Kara

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