[PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] udf/balloc.c : Fix use of uninitialized data

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 12:14:52 EST


2.6.15-rc7 - GCC warns correctly -
fs/udf/balloc.c: In function 'udf_table_new_block':
fs/udf/balloc.c:757: warning: 'goal_eloc.logicalBlockNum' may be used
uninitialized in this function

Variable goal_eloc is automatic, non-static and initialized conditionally -

if (nspread < spread)
{
...........
goal_eloc = eloc;
...........
}

The following patch fixes this by initializing the goal_eloc variable to zero.
Hopefully zero should be better than some random data! (Patch also
attached in case of problem with below inline version.) Compile
tested.

--- linux-2.6/fs/udf/balloc.c.orig 2005-12-28 11:53:12.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/fs/udf/balloc.c 2005-12-28 11:53:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -754,7 +754,8 @@ static int udf_table_new_block(struct su
uint32_t spread = 0xFFFFFFFF, nspread = 0xFFFFFFFF;
uint32_t newblock = 0, adsize;
uint32_t extoffset, goal_extoffset, elen, goal_elen = 0;
- kernel_lb_addr bloc, goal_bloc, eloc, goal_eloc;
+ kernel_lb_addr bloc, goal_bloc, eloc,
+ goal_eloc = { .logicalBlockNum=0, .partitionReferenceNum=0 } ;
struct buffer_head *bh, *goal_bh;
int8_t etype;

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