linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 259/323] f2fs: fix a redundant call to f2fs_balance

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Message-Id: <20210520092129.079045453@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 11:22:31 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 259/323] f2fs: fix a redundant call to f2fs_balance_fs if an error occurs

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

[ Upstream commit 28e18ee636ba28532dbe425540af06245a0bbecb ]

The  uninitialized variable dn.node_changed does not get set when a
call to f2fs_get_node_page fails.  This uninitialized value gets used
in the call to f2fs_balance_fs() that may or not may not balances
dirty node and dentry pages depending on the uninitialized state of
the variable. Fix this by only calling f2fs_balance_fs if err is
not set.

Thanks to Jaegeuk Kim for suggesting an appropriate fix.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
Fixes: 2a3407607028 ("f2fs: call f2fs_balance_fs only when node was changed")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/inline.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inline.c b/fs/f2fs/inline.c
index 8906f6381b1a..74bc861bab39 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inline.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inline.c
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ out:
 
 	f2fs_put_page(page, 1);
 
-	f2fs_balance_fs(sbi, dn.node_changed);
+	if (!err)
+		f2fs_balance_fs(sbi, dn.node_changed);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.30.2