On Mon 15-04-19 10:26:24, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In udf_lookup(), the pointer 'fi' is a local variable initialized by the
> return value of the function call udf_find_entry(). However, if the macro
> 'UDF_RECOVERY' is defined, this variable will become uninitialized if the
> else branch is not taken, which can potentially cause incorrect results in
> the following execution.
>
> This patch simply initializes this local pointer to NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6...@umn.edu>
Thanks for the patch! A better fix is to drop the whole UDF_RECOVERY ifdef
and what's in it. It is just dead code anyway.
Honza
> ---
> fs/udf/namei.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c
> index 58cc241..9d499e1 100644
> --- a/fs/udf/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/udf/namei.c
> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static struct dentry *udf_lookup(struct inode *dir,
> struct dentry *dentry,
> struct inode *inode = NULL;
> struct fileIdentDesc cfi;
> struct udf_fileident_bh fibh;
> - struct fileIdentDesc *fi;
> + struct fileIdentDesc *fi = NULL;
>
> if (dentry->d_name.len > UDF_NAME_LEN)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
--
Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
