linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:57:11 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        kcc@...gle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, ebiggers@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in
 mb_cache_entry_create()

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:27:25PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> KMSAN reported use of uninitialized |entry->e_referenced| in a condition
> in mb_cache_shrink():
> 

This still hasn't been fixed yet.  I think mbcache patches usually go in through
the ext4 tree --- Ted, can you take this patch through the ext4 tree sometime?

Eric