Re: [PATCH 2/5] fs: affs: initialize fsdata in affs_truncate()

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Tue Jan 10 2023 - 07:28:46 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 3:56 PM David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:21:31PM +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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With the fixed Fixes: reference,
>
> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>

Hi David,

I've noticed that the ext4 counterpart of this patch is in the
upstream tree already, whereas the affs, f2fs, hfs and hfsplus
versions are not.
Are they picked via a different tree?