Hi Folks, I'm not sure if someone else has also noticed the following reports from Coverity. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for xfsprogs Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 18:59:24 -0700 From: scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx Hi, Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to xfsprogs found with Coverity Scan. Defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan Showing 1 of 1 defect(s) ** CID 996972: Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN) /libxfs/xfs_btree.c: 2641 in xfs_btree_new_root() ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *** CID 996972: Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN) /libxfs/xfs_btree.c: 2641 in xfs_btree_new_root() 2635 /* Allocate the new block. If we can't do it, we're toast. Give up. */ 2636 error = cur->bc_ops->alloc_block(cur, &rptr, &lptr, 1, stat); 2637 if (error) 2638 goto error0; 2639 if (*stat == 0) 2640 goto out0; >>> CID 996972: Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN) >>> Jumping to case "XFS_BTNUM_MAX". 2641 XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(cur, alloc); 2642 2643 /* Set up the new block. */ 2644 error = xfs_btree_get_buf_block(cur, &lptr, 0, &new, &nbp); 2645 if (error) 2646 goto error0; It seems like a false alarm, but maybe we can just remove the out0 label as below? From: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: xfs: get rid of out0 goto label from xfs_btree_new_root Get rid of the useless out0 goto label and return 0 directly in case of falling to alloate the new block. Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c index 182bac2..f162dc9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c @@ -2653,8 +2653,11 @@ xfs_btree_new_root( error = cur->bc_ops->alloc_block(cur, &rptr, &lptr, stat); if (error) goto error0; - if (*stat == 0) - goto out0; + if (*stat == 0) { + XFS_BTREE_TRACE_CURSOR(cur, XBT_EXIT); + return 0; + } + XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(cur, alloc); /* Set up the new block. */ @@ -2743,10 +2746,6 @@ xfs_btree_new_root( error0: XFS_BTREE_TRACE_CURSOR(cur, XBT_ERROR); return error; -out0: - XFS_BTREE_TRACE_CURSOR(cur, XBT_EXIT); - *stat = 0; - return 0; } STATIC int -- 1.8.3.2 Cheers, -Jeff _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs