Bug#741952: linux: Possible bug in 3.2's cifs/file.c, use of uninitialized variable

2014-04-07 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 7 April 2014 04:34, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Agreed; what do you think of this patch? [...] From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:29:24 +0100 Subject: cifs: cifs_iovec_write(): fix use of uninitialised var Bug-Debian:

Bug#741952: linux: Possible bug in 3.2's cifs/file.c, use of uninitialized variable

2014-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 16:51 +0100, Raphael Geissert wrote: Source: linux Version: 3.2.54-2 Hi, In fs/cifs/file.c's cifs_iovec_write I believe that 'written'[1] can be used while not initialized: it is initialized in the call to CIFSSMBWrite2[2] but that code may

Bug#741952: linux: Possible bug in 3.2's cifs/file.c, use of uninitialized variable

2014-03-17 Thread Raphael Geissert
Source: linux Version: 3.2.54-2 Hi, In fs/cifs/file.c's cifs_iovec_write I believe that 'written'[1] can be used while not initialized: it is initialized in the call to CIFSSMBWrite2[2] but that code may not be run whenever cifs_reopen_file fails with any error other than EAGAIN. In that case,