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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] repair: fix some valgrind reported errors on i686
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 19:45:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111009234529.GA13527@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318201910-11144-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:11:47AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> Fix a potential prefetch read problem due to the first loop
> execution of pf_batch_read potentially not initialising the fsbno
> varaible:

variable.

> 
> ==10177== Thread 6:
> ==10177== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==10177==    at 0x8079CAB: pf_batch_read (prefetch.c:408)
> ==10177==    by 0x6A2996D: clone (clone.S:130)
> ==10177==
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
>  repair/prefetch.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/repair/prefetch.c b/repair/prefetch.c
> index d2fdf90..da074a8 100644
> --- a/repair/prefetch.c
> +++ b/repair/prefetch.c
> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ pf_batch_read(
>  	int			len, size;
>  	int			i;
>  	int			inode_bufs;
> -	unsigned long		fsbno;
> +	unsigned long		fsbno = 0;

Call me stupid, but I can't see how this could actually be a real
life issue.  The first thing we do in the loop is to to write
to fsbno in btree_find.  I'm fine adding this to shut up warnins,
but I can't see a real issue.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-09 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09 23:11 [PATCH 0/5, v2] repair: sector size and blkmap fixes Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] repair: handle repair of image files on large sector size filesystems Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10  0:17     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-10  0:19       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 2/5] repair: fix some valgrind reported errors on i686 Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-10  0:20     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 13:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/5] repair: handle memory allocation failure from blkmap_grow Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10  0:10     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 4/5] repair: don't cache large blkmap allocations Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10  0:14     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 13:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 5/5] repair: prevent blkmap extent count overflows Dave Chinner

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