This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
affs: initialize fsdata in affs_truncate()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
affs-initialize-fsdata-in-affs_truncate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3be7a9572dd41f0115fb5fcfd83b53363f98da55
Author: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 10 13:49:30 2023 +0100
affs: initialize fsdata in affs_truncate()
[ Upstream commit eef034ac6690118c88f357b00e2b3239c9d8575d ]
When aops->write_begin() does not initialize fsdata, KMSAN may report
an error passing the latter to aops->write_end().
Fix this by unconditionally initializing fsdata.
Fixes: f2b6a16eb8f5 ("fs: affs convert to new aops")
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/affs/file.c b/fs/affs/file.c
index ba084b0b214b..82bb38370aa9 100644
--- a/fs/affs/file.c
+++ b/fs/affs/file.c
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ affs_truncate(struct inode *inode)
if (inode->i_size > AFFS_I(inode)->mmu_private) {
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
struct page *page;
- void *fsdata;
+ void *fsdata = NULL;
loff_t isize = inode->i_size;
int res;
