From patchwork Mon Feb 4 23:04:17 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Andrew Morton X-Patchwork-Id: 2095481 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-acpi@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-process-083081@patchwork1.kernel.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by patchwork1.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A303FD56 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754121Ab3BDXEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:04:20 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48797 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753943Ab3BDXET (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:04:19 -0500 Received: from akpm.mtv.corp.google.com (unknown [216.239.45.90]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F63189F; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:04:17 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Tang Chen Cc: rientjes@google.com, len.brown@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, cl@linux.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, wujianguo@huawei.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, hpa@zytor.com, linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, mgorman@suse.de, yinghai@kernel.org, glommer@parallels.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/15] memory-hotplug: Common APIs to support page tables hot-remove Message-Id: <20130204150417.2b1256b1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1357723959-5416-9-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <1357723959-5416-1-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> <1357723959-5416-9-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:32:32 +0800 Tang Chen wrote: > +static void __meminit > +remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct) > +{ > + unsigned long next; > + pgd_t *pgd; > + pud_t *pud; > + bool pgd_changed = false; > + > + for (; start < end; start = next) { > + pgd = pgd_offset_k(start); > + if (!pgd_present(*pgd)) > + continue; > + > + next = pgd_addr_end(start, end); > + > + pud = (pud_t *)map_low_page((pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd)); > + remove_pud_table(pud, start, next, direct); > + if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd)) > + pgd_changed = true; > + unmap_low_page(pud); > + } > + > + if (pgd_changed) > + sync_global_pgds(start, end - 1); > + > + flush_tlb_all(); > +} This generates a compiler warning saying that `next' may be used uninitialised. The warning is correct. If we take that `continue' on the first pass through the loop, the "start = next" will copy uninitialised data into `start'. Is this the correct fix? --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c~memory-hotplug-common-apis-to-support-page-tables-hot-remove-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix +++ a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -993,12 +993,12 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, un bool pgd_changed = false; for (; start < end; start = next) { + next = pgd_addr_end(start, end); + pgd = pgd_offset_k(start); if (!pgd_present(*pgd)) continue; - next = pgd_addr_end(start, end); - pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd); remove_pud_table(pud, start, next, direct); if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd))