From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 463a7b457c02250a84faa1d23c52da9e3364aed2 ] static analysis with Coverity detected an issue with the following commit: Author: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 4 17:38:03 2019 -0300 cifs: Avoid doing network I/O while holding cache lock Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized pointer read") Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c index 2faa05860a483..cf6cec59696c2 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c @@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ static struct cifs_ses *find_root_ses(struct dfs_cache_vol_info *vi, char *mdata = NULL, *devname = NULL; struct TCP_Server_Info *server; struct cifs_ses *ses; - struct smb_vol vol; + struct smb_vol vol = {NULL}; rpath = get_dfs_root(path); if (IS_ERR(rpath)) -- 2.20.1