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

From: Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/36229: uninitialized dkwedge_info structure in mount_mfs
	causes random failures
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:55:02 +1000

 On Friday 2007-04-27 14:40 +0000, Christos Zoulas output:
 : | 	
 : | --- 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.
 
 If we're called as mount_mfs (or with -F) then we take the pathway at
 line 429 (see snippet above) and never call getdiskinfo() but later, at
 line 548, we access dkw:
 
 	if (dkw.dkw_parent[0] && fssize > dkw.dkw_size)
 
 which is uninitialized.
 
 Regards,
 Geoff