Re: [PATCH][xfs-next] xfs: fix uninitialized error variable

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:22:24AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A previous commit removed the initialization of variable 'error' to zero,
> and can cause a bogus error return.  This occurs when error contains a
> non-zero garbage value and the call to xchk_should_terminate detects a
> pending fatal signal and checks for a zero error before setting it
> to -EAGAIN. Fix the issue by initializing error to zero.
> 
> Fixes: b9454fe056bd ("xfs: clean up the inode cluster checking in the inobt scrub")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for the cleanup!

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D

> ---
>  fs/xfs/scrub/ialloc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/ialloc.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/ialloc.c
> index 2c9dad2b61b1..700114f79a7d 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/scrub/ialloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/ialloc.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ xchk_iallocbt_check_cluster_ifree(
>  	bool				irec_free;
>  	bool				ino_inuse;
>  	bool				freemask_ok;
> -	int				error;
> +	int				error = 0;
>  
>  	if (xchk_should_terminate(bs->sc, &error))
>  		return error;
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 



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