[PATCH 1/2] fs: ubifs: zero initialize allocated inode
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue May 19 05:44:47 PDT 2026
UBIFS uses kmem_cache_alloc() to allocate an ubifs_inode. The memory
returned from kmem_cache_alloc() is not zeroed. ubifs_alloc_inode()
zeroes all fields in the ubifs_inode except the embedded struct inode.
In Linux this is done in the kmem_cache constructor function which calls
inode_init_once(). In barebox we have the constructor function as well,
but we don't have an equivalent of inode_init_once(), so the constructor
is empty. zero the inode in the constructor instead so that barebox
gets a zeroed inode.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 45037b42ea..4022270d4c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ static void kill_ubifs_super(struct super_block *s)
*/
static void inode_slab_ctor(void *obj)
{
+ memset(obj, 0, sizeof(struct inode));
}
static int __init ubifs_init(void)
--
2.47.3
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