linux-ext4 - [PATCH] libuuid: don't use unitialized variable

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Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 13:38:31 +0200
From:	Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@...e.de>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] libuuid: don't use unitialized variable

Hi,

tv is not initialized before the assigment to last.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@...e.de>

Index: e2fsprogs-1.40.8/lib/uuid/gen_uuid.c
===================================================================
--- e2fsprogs-1.40.8.orig/lib/uuid/gen_uuid.c
+++ e2fsprogs-1.40.8/lib/uuid/gen_uuid.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int get_clock(uint32_t *clock_hig
 	if ((last.tv_sec == 0) && (last.tv_usec == 0)) {
 		get_random_bytes(&clock_seq, sizeof(clock_seq));
 		clock_seq &= 0x3FFF;
-		last = tv;
+		gettimeofday(&last, 0);
 		last.tv_sec--;
 	}
 


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