linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix uninitialized return value in shmem

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:05:01 -0800
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix uninitialized return value in shmem_link

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:21 PM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
>
> When we made the shmem_reserve_inode call in shmem_link conditional, we
> forgot to update the declaration for ret so that it always has a known
> value.  Dan Carpenter pointed out this deficiency in the original patch.
>
> Fixes: "tmpfs: fix link accounting when a tmpfile is linked in"
> Reported-by: dan.carpenter@...cle.com
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Gosh, yes indeed: thanks Dan and Darrick, I'm very sorry for not noticing that.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
(and sorry if this mail is garbled: it's from gmail, I cannot use
alpine at the moment).

> ---
>  mm/shmem.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 0905215fb016..2c012eee133d 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2848,7 +2848,7 @@ static int shmem_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
>  static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>         struct inode *inode = d_inode(old_dentry);
> -       int ret;
> +       int ret = 0;
>
>         /*
>          * No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes;