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shmem: initialize struct shmem_sb_info to zero

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Fixes the following kmemcheck false positive (the compiler is using
a 32-bit mov to load the 16-bit sbinfo->mode in shmem_fill_super):

[    0.337000] Total of 1 processors activated (3088.38 BogoMIPS).
[    0.352000] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[    0.360000] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized
memory (9f8020fc)
[    0.361000]
a44240820000000041f6998100000000000000000000000000000000ff030000
[    0.368000]  i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i u
u
[    0.375000]                                                          ^
[    0.376000]
[    0.377000] Pid: 9, comm: khelper Not tainted (2.6.31-tip #206) P4DC6
[    0.378000] EIP: 0060:[<810a3a95>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[    0.379000] EIP is at shmem_fill_super+0xb5/0x120
[    0.380000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 9f845400 ECX: 824042a4 EDX: 8199f641
[    0.381000] ESI: 9f8020c0 EDI: 9f845400 EBP: 9f81af68 ESP: 81cd6eec
[    0.382000]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[    0.383000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 9f806200 CR3: 01ccd000 CR4: 000006d0
[    0.384000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[    0.385000] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
[    0.386000]  [<810c25fc>] get_sb_nodev+0x3c/0x80
[    0.388000]  [<810a3514>] shmem_get_sb+0x14/0x20
[    0.390000]  [<810c207f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x120
[    0.392000]  [<81b2849e>] init_tmpfs+0x7e/0xb0
[    0.394000]  [<81b11597>] do_basic_setup+0x17/0x30
[    0.396000]  [<81b11907>] kernel_init+0x57/0xa0
[    0.398000]  [<810039b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    0.400000]  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
[    0.402000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2820 bytes left
[    0.407000] calling  init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 @ 1
[    0.408000] initcall init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 usecs

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Analysed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pekka Enberg 2009-09-21 17:03:50 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6e17b17f1f
commit 425fbf047c
1 changed files with 1 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -2309,17 +2309,14 @@ int shmem_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
int err = -ENOMEM;
/* Round up to L1_CACHE_BYTES to resist false sharing */
sbinfo = kmalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info),
sbinfo = kzalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info),
L1_CACHE_BYTES), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sbinfo)
return -ENOMEM;
sbinfo->max_blocks = 0;
sbinfo->max_inodes = 0;
sbinfo->mode = S_IRWXUGO | S_ISVTX;
sbinfo->uid = current_fsuid();
sbinfo->gid = current_fsgid();
sbinfo->mpol = NULL;
sb->s_fs_info = sbinfo;
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS