From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755472Ab0FAIXa (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:23:30 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63559 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754167Ab0FAIX1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:23:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; b=bAkKFHMqn7ZhBG9Q//mCBw7ZSFk4lirThE84BetCYC8of8aKuTC6nxHoG1KsIEw8k9 1Xvayj4d6a5edrX7uKFlMB6SkS11Ys+FHys3HltUfxtt+XqquB2A4R49PimNSfFwsna7 yOCkr/qCaqWs1lAGud+F/GZB3t80lbhxhmqGs= Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:23:11 +0200 From: Dan Carpenter To: Chris Mason Cc: Yan Zheng , Josef Bacik , Al Viro , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch] btrfs: uninitialized data is check_path_shared() Message-ID: <20100601082311.GM5483@bicker> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Carpenter , Chris Mason , Yan Zheng , Josef Bacik , Al Viro , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org refs can be used with uninitialized data if btrfs_lookup_extent_info() fails on the first pass through the loop. In the original code if that happens then check_path_shared() probably returns 1, but with this patch it will continue through the loop. I'm not super familiar with this code so please look it over carefully. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index fa6ccc1..9640dae 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ static int check_path_shared(struct btrfs_root *root, struct extent_buffer *eb; int level; int ret; - u64 refs; + u64 refs = 0; for (level = 0; level < BTRFS_MAX_LEVEL; level++) { if (!path->nodes[level])