Juergen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hmm, in usr/src/uts/common/fs/hsfs/hsfs_vfsops.c function hs_mountfs(),
> whenever we use one of the first three |goto cleanup|,  the local variables
> |svp| and |jvp| are uninitialized.  That should corrupt the kernel heap
> when we kmem_free() with an unitialized stack lock pointer in the
> cleanup section ...
>
>
>
>         struct hs_volume *svp;          /* Supplemental VD for ISO-9660:1999 
> */
>         struct hs_volume *jvp;          /* Joliet VD */
>

I have to admit that I am responsible for the uninitialized Joliet VD pointer.
Duplicating code is simple and in this case even passed 4 !!!! code reviews.

Does it help to intialize the pointers to NULL?


Jörg

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