Variable retries is not initialized in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin() which can lead to nondeterministic number of retries in case we hit ENOSPC. Initialize retries to zero as we do everywhere else. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: bc0ca9df3b2a ("ext4: retry allocation when inline->extent conversion failed") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/inline.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c index 3543fe80a3c4..1b13fa5c9d6e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ int ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin(struct address_space *mapping, handle_t *handle; struct page *page; struct ext4_iloc iloc; - int retries; + int retries = 0; ret = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc); if (ret) -- 2.17.1