From c27c29c6af4f3f4ce925a2111c256733c5a5b430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harshad Shirwadkar Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:34:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: initialize err_blk before calling __ext4_get_inode_loc It is not guaranteed that __ext4_get_inode_loc will definitely set err_blk pointer when it returns EIO. To avoid using uninitialized variables, let's first set err_blk to 0. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201163421.2631661-1-harshads@google.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 08a90e2..bca9951 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4524,7 +4524,7 @@ has_buffer: static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc) { - ext4_fsblk_t err_blk; + ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0; int ret; ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, NULL, iloc, @@ -4539,7 +4539,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem(struct inode *inode, int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc) { - ext4_fsblk_t err_blk; + ext4_fsblk_t err_blk = 0; int ret; ret = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino, inode, iloc, -- 2.7.4