[PATCH v4 17/22] netfs: Fix potential uninitialised var in netfs_extract_user_iter()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Apr 27 08:46:32 PDT 2026


In netfs_extract_user_iter(), if it's given a zero-length iterator, it will
fall through the loop without setting ret, and so the error handling
behaviour will be undefined, depending on whether ret happens to be
negative.  The value of ret then propagates back up the callstack.

Fix this by presetting ret to 0.

Fixes: 85dd2c8ff368 ("netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260414082004.3756080-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/iterator.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/iterator.c b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
index adca78747f23..429e4396e1b0 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
 	unsigned int max_pages;
 	unsigned int npages = 0;
 	unsigned int i;
-	ssize_t ret;
+	ssize_t ret = 0;
 	size_t count = orig_len, offset, len;
 	size_t bv_size, pg_size;
 




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