linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] fs: f2fs: initialize fsdata in pagecache

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Message-ID: <Y9LsEgN3ZdmC1aQp@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:09:38 -0800
From:   Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] fs: f2fs: initialize fsdata in pagecache_write()

On 01/22, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:53:19PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:21:32PM +0100, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > > When aops->write_begin() does not initialize fsdata, KMSAN may report
> > > an error passing the latter to aops->write_end().
> > > 
> > > Fix this by unconditionally initializing fsdata.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> > > Fixes: 95ae251fe828 ("f2fs: add fs-verity support")
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/f2fs/verity.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/verity.c b/fs/f2fs/verity.c
> > > index c352fff88a5e6..3f4f3295f1c66 100644
> > > --- a/fs/f2fs/verity.c
> > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/verity.c
> > > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static int pagecache_write(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, size_t count,
> > >  		size_t n = min_t(size_t, count,
> > >  				 PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(pos));
> > >  		struct page *page;
> > > -		void *fsdata;
> > > +		void *fsdata = NULL;
> > >  		int res;
> > >  
> > >  		res = aops->write_begin(NULL, mapping, pos, n, &page, &fsdata);
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > 
> 
> Jaegeuk, can you please apply this patch?

Yup, applied.

> 
> - Eric