linux-kernel - [BUG] fs: inotify_handle_event() reading un-init memory

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:33:18 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: [BUG] fs: inotify_handle_event() reading un-init memory

Caught by kmemcheck.

Don't know the fix... just pointed at the bug.

Introduced in commit 7053aee26a3 ("fsnotify: do not share
events between notification groups").
---
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 2cd900c2c737..370d66dc4ddb 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -96,11 +96,12 @@ int inotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	i_mark = container_of(inode_mark, struct inotify_inode_mark,
 			      fsn_mark);
 
+	// new object alloc here
 	event = kmalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!event))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	fsn_event = &event->fse;
+	fsn_event = &event->fse; // This looks wrong!?! read from un-init mem?
 	fsnotify_init_event(fsn_event, inode, mask);
 	event->wd = i_mark->wd;
 	event->sync_cookie = cookie;

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