[PATCH] ubifs: fix uninitialized variable usage

Antonio Quartulli antonio at mandelbit.com
Fri Nov 15 14:26:34 PST 2024


In ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), when an inode cannot be deleted
due to too many xattrs, err is passed to ubifs_ro_mode()
uninitialized, thus leading to bogus error reporting.

Fix this case by passing -EPERM, which is the same value that
ubifs_jnl_write_inode() is going to return to the caller.

This fixes 1 UNINIT issue reported by Coverity
Report: CID 1601860: Uninitialized scalar variable (UNINIT)

Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
Cc: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org (open list)
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio at mandelbit.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/journal.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index 8e98be642371..5eedf511880c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_write_inode(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *inode)
 
 	if (kill_xattrs && ui->xattr_cnt > ubifs_xattr_max_cnt(c)) {
 		ubifs_err(c, "Cannot delete inode, it has too much xattrs!");
-		ubifs_ro_mode(c, err);
+		ubifs_ro_mode(c, -EPERM);
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 
-- 
2.45.2




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