`removed_sized` isn't correctly initialized (as the doc comment suggests) on memory allocation failures. Fix by moving initialization up a bit. Fixes: 0c47383ba3bd ("kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx> --- I'm sending this through the cgroup tree b/c the original patchset went through it. I don't believe the patchset has made its way into mainline yet. Hopefully this is ok. fs/xattr.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index e13265e65871..91608d9bfc6a 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ int simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name, struct simple_xattr *new_xattr = NULL; int err = 0; + if (removed_size) + *removed_size = -1; + /* value == NULL means remove */ if (value) { new_xattr = simple_xattr_alloc(value, size); @@ -914,9 +917,6 @@ int simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name, list_add(&new_xattr->list, &xattrs->head); xattr = NULL; } - - if (removed_size) - *removed_size = -1; out: spin_unlock(&xattrs->lock); if (xattr) { -- 2.26.0