From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:40:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mkfs.cramfs: avoid uninitialized value [coverity scan]
X-Git-Tag: v2.41.2-rc1~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bc1ebbcc14b77ff9bc005dd029e80f06c39ed77;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

mkfs.cramfs: avoid uninitialized value [coverity scan]

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c24654e0d5976fac7f785b8bf4f8217cc1df2772)
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diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
index 89436f10b..b8557ce35 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static int cramsort (const struct dirent **a, const struct dirent **b)
 
 static unsigned int parse_directory(struct entry *root_entry, const char *name, struct entry **prev, loff_t *fslen_ub)
 {
-	struct dirent **dirlist;
+	struct dirent **dirlist = NULL;
 	int totalsize = 0, dircount, dirindex;
 	char *path, *endpath;
 	size_t len = strlen(name);