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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: REVIEW: Zero uninitialised xfs_da_args structure in xfs_dir2.c
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:50:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080602055028.GA1629@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.ub3wttk53jf8g2@pc-bnaujok.melbourne.sgi.com>

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:42:55PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> In particular, this patch fixes a problem in the xfs_dir2_remove and
> xfs_dir2_replace paths which internally can call a lookup function
> which will use args->cmpresult which is uninitialised.

> Index: 2.6.x-xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.x-xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2.c
> +++ 2.6.x-xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2.c
> @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ xfs_dir_createname(
>  	if ((rval = xfs_dir_ino_validate(tp->t_mountp, inum)))
>  		return rval;
>  	XFS_STATS_INC(xs_dir_create);
> +	memset(&args, 0, sizeof(xfs_da_args_t));
>
>  	args.name = name->name;
>  	args.namelen = name->len;

Doing these memsets looks good.  Stylisticly I'd rather put them
directly in front of the intialization for the actually used args
fields.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-02  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-02  5:42 REVIEW: Zero uninitialised xfs_da_args structure in xfs_dir2.c Barry Naujok
2008-06-02  5:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-02  6:08   ` Barry Naujok
2008-06-02  6:08     ` Christoph Hellwig

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