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Message-ID: <CAB4K4y5S-X8rCWZaB5ZJeAZupoKajMsKyVw7eMFnAP1v7V5dVw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:40:25 +0530
From:	Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: fix uninitialised iattr in do_truncate

[PATCH] vfs: fix uninitialised iattr in do_truncate

struct newattrs is uninitialised.

Signed-off-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com>
---
 fs/open.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 77becc0..2676efa 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t
length, unsigned int time_attrs,
 	struct file *filp)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct iattr newattrs;
+	struct iattr newattrs = {0};

 	/* Not pretty: "inode->i_size" shouldn't really be signed. But it is. */
 	if (length < 0)
-- 
1.7.8.4
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