Re: [PATCH]initialize the array of fs/ncpfs/inode.c

From: Tim Gardner
Date: Mon Apr 11 2011 - 19:28:40 EST


On 04/11/2011 04:18 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:08:18 +0800
Harry Wei<jiaweiwei.xiyou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi us,
When i compile the linux-2.6.38.2, some warnings happened
to me. One of them is like following.

fs/ncpfs/inode.c: In function 'ncp_fill_super':
fs/ncpfs/inode.c:451: warning: 'data.mounted_vol[1u]' may be used
uninitialized in this function
...
See details by the URL:
http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/harrywei/Kernel/?action=view&current=patched.png

Yup. The compiler is "wrong" because it doesn't know that the
uninitialised bytes will never be read, because they fall after the
'\0' in a null-terminated string.

@@ -461,6 +462,7 @@ static int ncp_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *raw_data, int silent)
#endif
struct ncp_entry_info finfo;

+ data.mounted_vol[NCP_VOLNAME_LEN + 1] = {0};
data.wdog_pid = NULL;
server = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ncp_server), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!server)

hm. I'm not sure that this fixed data.mounted_vol[2u],
data.mounted_vol[3u], etc.

How about we use the big hammer?



From: Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

fs/ncpfs/inode.c: In function 'ncp_fill_super':
fs/ncpfs/inode.c:451: warning: 'data.mounted_vol[1u]' may be used uninitialized in this function
fs/ncpfs/inode.c:451: warning: 'data.mounted_vol[2u]' may be used uninitialized in this function
fs/ncpfs/inode.c:451: warning: 'data.mounted_vol[3u]' may be used uninitialized in this function
...

It's notabug, but we can easily fix it with a memset().

Reported-by: Harry Wei<jiaweiwei.xiyou@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec<petr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/ncpfs/inode.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ncpfs/inode.c~fs-ncpfs-inodec-suppress-used-uninitialised-warning fs/ncpfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c~fs-ncpfs-inodec-suppress-used-uninitialised-warning
+++ a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static int ncp_fill_super(struct super_b
#endif
struct ncp_entry_info finfo;

- data.wdog_pid = NULL;
+ memset(data, 0, sizeof(data));

Needs '&' ?

memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));

server = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ncp_server), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!server)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -496,7 +496,6 @@ static int ncp_fill_super(struct super_b
struct ncp_mount_data_v4* md = (struct ncp_mount_data_v4*)raw_data;

data.flags = md->flags;
- data.int_flags = 0;
data.mounted_uid = md->mounted_uid;
data.wdog_pid = find_get_pid(md->wdog_pid);
data.ncp_fd = md->ncp_fd;
@@ -507,7 +506,6 @@ static int ncp_fill_super(struct super_b
data.file_mode = md->file_mode;
data.dir_mode = md->dir_mode;
data.info_fd = -1;
- data.mounted_vol[0] = 0;
}
break;
default:
_

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