From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>, Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
patches@lists.linux.dev, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ntfs: Use return instead of goto in ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress()
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:21:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428-ntfs-fix-sometimes-uninit-rl-v1-1-31e0c8025430@kernel.org> (raw)
Clang warns (or errors with CONFIG_WERROR=y / W=e):
fs/ntfs/runlist.c:755:6: error: variable 'rl' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
755 | if (overflows_type(lowest_vcn, vcn)) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...
fs/ntfs/runlist.c:971:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
971 | kvfree(rl);
| ^~
...
rl has not been allocated at this point so the 'goto err_out' should
really just be a return of the error pointer -EIO.
Fixes: cad7c6f0a514 ("ntfs: fix VCN overflow in ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress()")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
fs/ntfs/runlist.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
index be6ca3d374bb..da21dbeaaf66 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ struct runlist_element *ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(const struct ntfs_volume *
/* Validate lowest_vcn from on-disk metadata to ensure it is sane. */
if (overflows_type(lowest_vcn, vcn)) {
ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Invalid lowest_vcn in mapping pairs.");
- goto err_out;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
/* Start at vcn = lowest_vcn and lcn 0. */
vcn = lowest_vcn;
---
base-commit: d986ba0329dcca102e227995371135c9bbcefb6b
change-id: 20260428-ntfs-fix-sometimes-uninit-rl-cfe3c6a9c34e
Best regards,
--
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 19:21 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-28 19:21 Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2026-04-28 23:25 ` [PATCH] ntfs: Use return instead of goto in ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() Hyunchul Lee
2026-04-29 22:07 ` Namjae Jeon
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