linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix uninitialised iattr in do

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvwLKD2ZhOZWVo1_hR1r12DpKXZZ273whHqdggrrmdbHFA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:20:59 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix uninitialised iattr in do_truncate

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com> wrote:
> [PATCH] vfs: fix uninitialised iattr in do_truncate
>
> struct newattrs is uninitialised.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@...il.com>

Does this fix a real bug?
AFAIK notify_change() makes only use of newattrs's initialized members.

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Thanks,
//richard
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