Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: use kzalloc for quota recovery bitmap allocation

Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:10:48 +0000 Tristan Madani <[email protected]> wrote:

> ocfs2 quota recovery allocates a bitmap buffer with kmalloc and does
> not fully initialize it. This can lead to use of uninitialized bits
> during quota recovery from a corrupted filesystem image.
> 
> Use kzalloc instead to ensure the bitmap is zero-initialized.

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