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Re: [PATCH] xfs: Fix uninitialized return value in xfs_alloc_fix_freelis

To: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Fix uninitialized return value in xfs_alloc_fix_freelist()
From: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:16:50 -0400
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Delivered-to: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1436948168-25051-1-git-send-email-jack@xxxxxxxx>
References: <1436948168-25051-1-git-send-email-jack@xxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:16:08AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> xfs_alloc_fix_freelist() can sometimes jump to out_agbp_relse without
> ever setting value of 'error' variable which is then returned. This can
> happen e.g. when pag->pagf_init is set but AG is for metadata and we
> want to allocate user data.
> 
> Fix the problem by initializing 'error' to 0, which is the desired
> return value when we decide to skip this group.
> 
> CC: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Coverity-id: 1309714
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> index f9e9ffe6fb46..7f8f2a0d4567 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> @@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ xfs_alloc_fix_freelist(
>       struct xfs_alloc_arg    targs;  /* local allocation arguments */
>       xfs_agblock_t           bno;    /* freelist block */
>       xfs_extlen_t            need;   /* total blocks needed in freelist */
> -     int                     error;
> +     int                     error = 0;
>  
>       if (!pag->pagf_init) {
>               error = xfs_alloc_read_agf(mp, tp, args->agno, flags, &agbp);
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
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