Re: [NFS] [PATCH] NFSD: fix uninitialized variable

[Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>]

young dave wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Given what you said above, I don't see gcc, on its best day, will ever
>> know enough to validate that that variable is indeed always initialized.
>>   So I would vote for silencing it on those grounds.
>
> I agree too. How about this one:
>
> diff -dur linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c linux.new/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
> --- linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c     2007-05-29 12:28:29.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux.new/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c 2007-05-29 12:30:45.000000000 +0000
> @@ -183,8 +183,6 @@
> summarize_posix_acl(struct posix_acl *acl, struct posix_acl_summary *pas)
> {
>        struct posix_acl_entry *pa, *pe;
> -       pas->users = 0;
> -       pas->groups = 0;
>        pas->mask = 07;
>
>        pe = acl->a_entries + acl->a_count;
> @@ -229,6 +227,7 @@
>        int eflag = ((flags & NFS4_ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT) ?
>                NFS4_INHERITANCE_FLAGS | NFS4_ACE_INHERIT_ONLY_ACE : 0);
>
> +       memset(pas, 0, sizeof(struct posix_acl_summary);
>        BUG_ON(pacl->a_count < 3);
>        summarize_posix_acl(pacl, &pas);
>
                                                                          
^^^^^

apart from the fact that this patch won't compile let alone run...


Matt