The following reply was made to PR bin/36229; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36229: uninitialized dkwedge_info structure in mount_mfs causes random failures
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:38:26 -0400

 On Apr 27,  6:45am, gcw@primenet.com.au (gcw@primenet.com.au) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/36229: uninitialized dkwedge_info structure in mount_mfs caus
 
 | >Number:         36229
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       uninitialized dkwedge_info structure in mount_mfs causes random failures
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 27 06:45:00 +0000 2007
 | >Originator:     Geoff C. Wing
 | >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.18
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | System: NetBSD g.primenet.com.au 4.99.18 NetBSD 4.99.18 (G) #0: Tue Apr 24 18:09:38 EST 2007 gcw@g.primenet.com.au:/usr/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/G i386
 | Architecture: i386
 | Machine: i386
 | >Description:
 | 	A dkwedge_info structure in newfs is uninitialized when called as
 | 	mount_mfs
 | 
 | 	Later checks for valid structure are against *.dkw_parent[0] (a char)
 | 	being non-zero, so simple 0 fill of structure should suffice
 | 
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | 	.
 | >Fix:
 | 	
 | --- sbin/newfs/newfs.c.org	2006-11-26 19:39:17.000000000 +1100
 | +++ sbin/newfs/newfs.c	2007-04-27 15:20:23.000000000 +1000
 | @@ -425,6 +425,7 @@
 |  		usage();
 |  
 |  	memset(&sb, 0, sizeof sb);
 | +	memset(&dkw, 0, sizeof dkw);
 |  	special = argv[0];
 |  	if (Fflag || mfs) {
 |  		/*
 
 I don't understand this. If getdiskinfo succeeds, dkw should be properly
 initialized; if it fails then we exit.
 
 christos