From c27c29c6af4f3f4ce925a2111c256733c5a5b430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:34:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: initialize err_blk before calling __ext4_get_inode_loc
Git-commit: c27c29c6af4f3f4ce925a2111c256733c5a5b430
Patch-mainline: v5.17-rc1
References: bsc#1202763
It is not guaranteed that __ext4_get_inode_loc will definitely set
err_blk pointer when it returns EIO. To avoid using uninitialized
variables, let's first set err_blk to 0.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201163421.2631661-1-harshads@google.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4451,7 +4451,7 @@ has_buffer:
static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode,
struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
{
- ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+ ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
int ret;
ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, iloc, 0,
@@ -4466,7 +4466,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(
int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
{
- ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+ ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
int ret;
/* We have all inode data except xattrs in memory here. */