On 04/10/2024 15:10, SurajSonawane2415 wrote:
Explaination of how bio could be used uninitialized in this function:
In the function blk_rq_prep_clone, the variable bio is declared but can remain uninitialized
if the allocation with bio_alloc_clone fails. This can lead to undefined behavior when the
function attempts to free bio in the error handling section using bio_put(bio).
By initializing bio to NULL at declaration, we ensure that the cleanup code will only
interact with bio if it has been successfully allocated.
What about if rq_src->bio is NULL for blk_rq_prep_clone() -> __rq_for_each_bio(,rq_src):
#define __rq_for_each_bio(_bio, rq) \
if ((rq->bio)) \
for (_bio = (rq)->bio; _bio; _bio = _bio->bi_next)
Then I don't think bio it get init'ed. Whether this is possible (rq_src->bio is NULL) is another question.