[PATCH] xfs: Fix uninitialized return value in xfs_alloc_fix_freelist()

Brian Foster bfoster at redhat.com
Wed Jul 15 06:16:50 CDT 2015


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 at oss.sgi.com
> Coverity-id: 1309714
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster at redhat.com>

>  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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