From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34522 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726657AbfCLOWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:22:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:22:02 -0500 From: Bill O'Donnell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: zero initialize highstale and lowstale in xfs_dir2_leaf_addname Message-ID: <20190312142202.GA28037@redhat.com> References: <20190311161948.GC4359@magnolia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190311161948.GC4359@magnolia> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers , clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:19:48AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong > > Smatch complains about the following: > > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c:848 xfs_dir2_leaf_addname() error: > uninitialized symbol 'lowstale'. > > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c:849 xfs_dir2_leaf_addname() error: > uninitialized symbol 'highstale'. > > I don't think there's any incorrect behavior associated with the > uninitialized variable, but as the author of the previous zero-init > patch points out, it's best not to be passing around pointers to > uninitialized stack areas. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell > --- > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c > index 9a3767818c50..2abf945e5844 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c > @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ xfs_dir2_leaf_addname( > xfs_dir2_data_unused_t *dup; /* data unused entry */ > int error; /* error return value */ > int grown; /* allocated new data block */ > - int highstale; /* index of next stale leaf */ > + int highstale = 0; /* index of next stale leaf */ > int i; /* temporary, index */ > int index; /* leaf table position */ > struct xfs_buf *lbp; /* leaf's buffer */ > @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ xfs_dir2_leaf_addname( > xfs_dir2_leaf_entry_t *lep; /* leaf entry table pointer */ > int lfloglow; /* low leaf logging index */ > int lfloghigh; /* high leaf logging index */ > - int lowstale; /* index of prev stale leaf */ > + int lowstale = 0; /* index of prev stale leaf */ > xfs_dir2_leaf_tail_t *ltp; /* leaf tail pointer */ > int needbytes; /* leaf block bytes needed */ > int needlog; /* need to log data header */