The patch titled Subject: hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix Date: Wed Dec 21 01:32:43 PM PST 2022 give hfsplus_listxattr:key_len narrower scope Cc: XU pengfei <xupengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c~hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix +++ a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c @@ -677,7 +677,6 @@ ssize_t hfsplus_listxattr(struct dentry ssize_t res; struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); struct hfs_find_data fd; - u16 key_len; struct hfsplus_attr_key attr_key; char *strbuf; int xattr_name_len; @@ -719,7 +718,8 @@ ssize_t hfsplus_listxattr(struct dentry } for (;;) { - key_len = hfs_bnode_read_u16(fd.bnode, fd.keyoffset); + u16 key_len = hfs_bnode_read_u16(fd.bnode, fd.keyoffset); + if (key_len == 0 || key_len > fd.tree->max_key_len) { pr_err("invalid xattr key length: %d\n", key_len); res = -EIO; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memfd-add-mfd_noexec_seal-and-mfd_exec-fix.patch mm-memfd-add-mfd_noexec_seal-and-mfd_exec-fix-fix.patch mm-memfd-add-mfd_noexec_seal-and-mfd_exec-fix-3.patch mm-memfd-add-mfd_noexec_seal-and-mfd_exec-fix-3-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-introduce-hugetlb_walk-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-memcontrol-deprecate-charge-moving-fix.patch error-injection-remove-ei_etype_none-fix.patch hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization-fix.patch