Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: zero initialize highstale and lowstale in xfs_dir2_leaf_addname

From: Allison Henderson
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 13:11:40 EST


Looks fine. You can add my review. Thx!

Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 3/11/19 9:19 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

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 <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 */