linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] ext4: access to uninitialized bh fields in ext4_xattr_set

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:42:01 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] ext4: access to uninitialized bh fields in
 ext4_xattr_set_handle()

On Oct 30, 2018, at 9:39 PM, Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/31/2018 04:30 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> Could you please explain your statement below that on-stack
>> initialization does not zero unspecified fields?  According
>> to documents I found, for example:
>> 
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html
>> 
>> they *are* initialized to zero.
> 
> I did not know it,
> I re-checked it in generated assembler code and found that you
> are right and I was wrong.
> 
> Please drop this patch,
> should I resend of rest of this patch set once again?

I don't think it is necessary to resend the whole patch series.
Ted should notice these emails on this patch and not apply it.

Cheers, Andreas






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