linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: initialize err_blk before calling __ext4_get_inode

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Date:   Wed,  1 Dec 2021 08:34:21 -0800
From:   Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: initialize err_blk before calling __ext4_get_inode_loc

From: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>

It is not guaranteed that __ext4_get_inode_loc will definitely set
err_blk pointer when it returns EIO. To avoid using uninitialized
variables, let's first set err_blk to 0.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index bfd3545f1e5d..fbdd2dda57ae 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4523,7 +4523,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
 static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode,
 					struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 {
-	ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+	ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, NULL, iloc,
@@ -4538,7 +4538,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode,
 
 int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 {
-	ext4_fsblk_t err_blk;
+	ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0;
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, inode, iloc,
-- 
2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog