[PATCH] dax/fsdev: fix uninitialized kaddr in fsdev_dax_zero_page_range()
From: John Groves
Date: Sun Apr 12 2026 - 11:52:26 EST
From: John Groves <John@xxxxxxxxxx>
__fsdev_dax_direct_access() returns -EFAULT without setting *kaddr when
dax_pgoff_to_phys() returns -1 (pgoff out of range). The return value
was ignored, leaving kaddr uninitialized before being passed to
fsdev_write_dax().
Check the return value and propagate the error.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter and the smatch project for reporting this.
Signed-off-by: John Groves <john@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/fsdev.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dax/fsdev.c b/drivers/dax/fsdev.c
index 4499d9621f33..188b2526bee4 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/fsdev.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/fsdev.c
@@ -80,9 +80,12 @@ static int fsdev_dax_zero_page_range(struct dax_device *dax_dev,
pgoff_t pgoff, size_t nr_pages)
{
void *kaddr;
+ long rc;
WARN_ONCE(nr_pages > 1, "%s: nr_pages > 1\n", __func__);
- __fsdev_dax_direct_access(dax_dev, pgoff, 1, DAX_ACCESS, &kaddr, NULL);
+ rc = __fsdev_dax_direct_access(dax_dev, pgoff, 1, DAX_ACCESS, &kaddr, NULL);
+ if (rc < 0)
+ return rc;
fsdev_write_dax(kaddr, ZERO_PAGE(0), 0, PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}
base-commit: 2ae624d5a555d47a735fb3f4d850402859a4db77
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2.53.0