Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:53:14 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ovl: avoid setting uninitialized creds |
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > If the call to ovl_copy_up() fails, we now call revert_creds on > an uninitialized structure after a recent patch, as found > by "gcc -Wmayby-uninitialized": > > fs/overlayfs/inode.c: In function 'ovl_open_maybe_copy_up': > fs/overlayfs/inode.c:39:2: error: 'old_cred' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] > fs/overlayfs/inode.c:22:21: note: 'old_cred' was declared here > > This changes the code back to not call revert_creds unless > we have already called ovl_override_creds().
Thanks. Slightly reworked fix folded into original patch and pushed out.
Thanks, Miklos
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