--- /dev/null
+From 7e3d8db899d54af39fafb2eb3392b0cdae9973b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 13:33:45 +0100
+Subject: netfs: Fix potential uninitialised var in netfs_extract_user_iter()
+
+From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+
+commit 7e3d8db899d54af39fafb2eb3392b0cdae9973b5 upstream.
+
+In netfs_extract_user_iter(), if it's given a zero-length iterator, it will
+fall through the loop without setting ret, and so the error handling
+behaviour will be undefined, depending on whether ret happens to be
+negative. The value of ret then propagates back up the callstack.
+
+Fix this by presetting ret to 0.
+
+Fixes: 85dd2c8ff368 ("netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator")
+Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260414082004.3756080-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
+Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-9-dhowells@redhat.com
+cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
+cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
+cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
+cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
+Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ fs/netfs/iterator.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
++++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
+@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct i
+ unsigned int max_pages;
+ unsigned int npages = 0;
+ unsigned int i;
+- ssize_t ret;
++ ssize_t ret = 0;
+ size_t count = orig_len, offset, len;
+ size_t bv_size, pg_size;
+