From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Trond Myklebust Subject: [PATCH 3.17 107/141] nfs: Fix use of uninitialized variable in nfs_getattr() Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:52:10 -0800 Message-Id: <20141119205154.141172211@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20141119205150.700188369@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141119205150.700188369@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit 16caf5b6101d03335b386e77e9e14136f989be87 upstream. Variable 'err' needn't be initialized when nfs_getattr() uses it to check whether it should call generic_fillattr() or not. That can result in spurious error returns. Initialize 'err' properly. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, st { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; int need_atime = NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME; - int err; + int err = 0; trace_nfs_getattr_enter(inode); /* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime. */