Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: ensure tmp_logflags is initialized in xfs_bmap_del_extent_real

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Nov 28 2023 - 03:19:50 EST


On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 01:32:01PM +0800, Jiachen Zhang wrote:
> In the case of returning -ENOSPC, ensure tmp_logflags is initialized by 0.
> Otherwise the caller __xfs_bunmapi will set uninitialized illegal
> tmp_logflags value into xfs log, which might cause unpredictable error
> in the log recovery procedure.

This looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

But I wonder if removing the local flags variable and always directly
assigning to *logflagsp might be more robust in the long run.