linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/8] [GFS2] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't use an uninitialized variable

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:18:58 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] [GFS2] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't use
	an uninitialized variable

>>From 348acd48f050f5ba7fa917b1421ae34443be97dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:20:04 +0200
Subject: [GFS2] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't use an uninitialized variable

In the "if (extlen)" case, "new" might be used uninitialized.

Looking at the code, it should be initialized to 0.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dir.c b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
index ce52bd9..ead7df0 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_write_data(struct gf
 	while (copied < size) {
 		unsigned int amount;
 		struct buffer_head *bh;
-		int new;
+		int new = 0;
 
 		amount = size - copied;
 		if (amount > sdp->sd_sb.sb_bsize - o)
-- 
1.4.1



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