On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 11:51:09 +0800 zhongjiang [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: zhong jiang <redacted>

when compile the kenrel code, I happens to the following warn.
fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c:1156:2: warning: ___new_insert_key___ may be used
uninitialized in this function.
memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);

The patch fix it by check the new_insert_ptr. if new_insert_ptr is not
NULL, we ensure that new_insert_key is assigned. therefore, memcpy will
saftly exec the operatetion.

--- a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c

@@ -1153,8 +1153,10 @@ int balance_internal(struct tree_balance *tb,
 				       insert_ptr);
 	}
 
-	memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
-	insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr;
+	if (new_insert_ptr) {
+		memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
+		insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr;
+	}
 
 	return order;

Jeff has aleady fixed this with an equivalent patch.  It's in -mm at
present.

From: Jeff Mahoney <redacted>
Subject: reiserfs: fix "new_insert_key may be used uninitialized ..."

new_insert_key only makes any sense when it's associated with a
new_insert_ptr, which is initialized to NULL and changed to a buffer_head
when we also initialize new_insert_key.  We can key off of that to avoid
the uninitialized warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5eca5ffb-2155-8df2-b4a2-f162f105efed@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <redacted>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c~reiserfs-fix-new_insert_key-may-be-used-uninitialized fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c

--- a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c~reiserfs-fix-new_insert_key-may-be-used-uninitialized
+++ a/fs/reiserfs/ibalance.c

@@ -1153,8 +1153,9 @@ int balance_internal(struct tree_balance
 				       insert_ptr);
 	}
 
-	memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
 	insert_ptr[0] = new_insert_ptr;
+	if (new_insert_ptr)
+		memcpy(new_insert_key_addr, &new_insert_key, KEY_SIZE);
 
 	return order;
 }

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