linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xattr: fix uninitialized out-param

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Message-ID: <20200409193410.GD37608@mtj.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:34:10 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xattr: fix uninitialized out-param

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:27:29PM -0700, Daniel Xu wrote:
> `removed_sized` isn't correctly initialized (as the doc comment
> suggests) on memory allocation failures. Fix by moving initialization up
> a bit.
> 
> Fixes: 0c47383ba3bd ("kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>

Appiled to cgroup/for-5.7-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun