Re: [PATCH] UDF: possible usage of uninitialized variables

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 14:41:08 EST


On Tue, 22 May 2007 21:52:23 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A few variables could be used without being explicitly initialized.
> Fixed.

Are you sure? I'm expecting that this is a gcc mistake.

> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>
> balloc.c | 6 +++++-
> super.c | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/balloc.c b/balloc.c
> index 4cec910..be37393 100644
> --- a/balloc.c
> +++ b/balloc.c

Please always use `patch -p1' form from the top-level directory. This should
have been

--- a/fs/udf/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/udf/balloc.c

> @@ -744,7 +744,11 @@ static int udf_table_new_block(struct super_block * sb,
> uint32_t spread = 0xFFFFFFFF, nspread = 0xFFFFFFFF;
> uint32_t newblock = 0, adsize;
> uint32_t elen, goal_elen = 0;
> - kernel_lb_addr eloc, goal_eloc;
> + kernel_lb_addr eloc;
> + kernel_lb_addr goal_eloc = {
> + .logicalBlockNum = 0,
> + .partitionReferenceNum = 0,
> + };

kernel_lb_addr goal_eloc = { };

is equivalent and sufficient.
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