Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs_pin: Fix uninitialized value in fs_pin

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On 5/8/2015 3:43 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:19:23PM +0800, Kinglong Mee wrote:
>> Without initialized, done in fs_pin at stack space may
>> contains strange value.
> 
> Looks like both init_fs_pin callers use some variation on kzalloc(), so
> I don't think there's any actual bug here.

Yes, you are right.

But nfsd's export cache using kmalloc for memory allocating,
if I insert a fs_pin into svc_export{}, the value of done maybe
strange value.

Maybe I should update using kzalloc in nfsd?
But I'd like this one.

thanks,
Kinglong Mee

> 
> Maybe there's some other reason for the belt-and-suspenders approach,
> that's Al's call, I think.
> 
> --b.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/fs_pin.h | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/fs_pin.h b/include/linux/fs_pin.h
>> index 3886b3b..18fad53 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/fs_pin.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/fs_pin.h
>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ static inline void init_fs_pin(struct fs_pin *p, void (*kill)(struct fs_pin *))
>>  	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&p->s_list);
>>  	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&p->m_list);
>>  	p->kill = kill;
>> +	p->done = 0;
>>  }
>>  
>>  void pin_remove(struct fs_pin *);
>> -- 
>> 2.4.0
>>
> 
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