ext4: Fix ext4_mb_initialize_context() to initialize all fields
Pavel Roskin pointed out that kmemcheck indicated that
ext4_mb_store_history() was accessing uninitialized values of
ac->ac_tail and ac->ac_buddy leading to garbage in the mballoc
history. Fix this by initializing the entire structure to all zeros
first.
Also, two fields were getting doubly initialized by the caller of
ext4_mb_initialize_context, so remove them for efficiency's sake.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 2fcaf28..cd25846 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4227,14 +4227,9 @@
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, goal, &group, &block);
/* set up allocation goals */
+ memset(ac, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_allocation_context));
ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical = ar->logical;
- ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group = 0;
- ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start = 0;
- ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len = 0;
ac->ac_status = AC_STATUS_CONTINUE;
- ac->ac_groups_scanned = 0;
- ac->ac_ex_scanned = 0;
- ac->ac_found = 0;
ac->ac_sb = sb;
ac->ac_inode = ar->inode;
ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical = ar->logical;
@@ -4245,15 +4240,7 @@
ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group = group;
ac->ac_g_ex.fe_start = block;
ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = len;
- ac->ac_f_ex.fe_len = 0;
ac->ac_flags = ar->flags;
- ac->ac_2order = 0;
- ac->ac_criteria = 0;
- ac->ac_pa = NULL;
- ac->ac_bitmap_page = NULL;
- ac->ac_buddy_page = NULL;
- ac->alloc_semp = NULL;
- ac->ac_lg = NULL;
/* we have to define context: we'll we work with a file or
* locality group. this is a policy, actually */
@@ -4521,10 +4508,7 @@
}
ac = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_ac_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
- if (ac) {
- ac->ac_sb = sb;
- ac->ac_inode = ar->inode;
- } else {
+ if (!ac) {
ar->len = 0;
*errp = -ENOMEM;
goto out1;