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mm/hugetlb: Initialize page to NULL in alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol()

Message ID 20210810200632.3812797-1-nathan@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/hugetlb: Initialize page to NULL in alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol() | expand

Commit Message

Nathan Chancellor Aug. 10, 2021, 8:06 p.m. UTC
Clang warns:

mm/hugetlb.c:2162:6: warning: variable 'page' is used uninitialized
whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
        if (mpol_is_preferred_many(mpol)) {
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/hugetlb.c:2172:7: note: uninitialized use occurs here
        if (!page)
             ^~~~
mm/hugetlb.c:2162:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always
true
        if (mpol_is_preferred_many(mpol)) {
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/hugetlb.c:2155:19: note: initialize the variable 'page' to silence
this warning
        struct page *page;
                         ^
                          = NULL
1 warning generated.

Initialize page to NULL like in dequeue_huge_page_vma() so that page is
not used uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


base-commit: 18f73b217b4633e27a61832e1485ce927a8ee5c1

Comments

Feng Tang Aug. 11, 2021, 1:21 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 01:06:32PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
> 
> mm/hugetlb.c:2162:6: warning: variable 'page' is used uninitialized
> whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>         if (mpol_is_preferred_many(mpol)) {
>             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/hugetlb.c:2172:7: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>         if (!page)
>              ^~~~
> mm/hugetlb.c:2162:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always
> true
>         if (mpol_is_preferred_many(mpol)) {
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/hugetlb.c:2155:19: note: initialize the variable 'page' to silence
> this warning
>         struct page *page;
>                          ^
>                           = NULL
> 1 warning generated.
> 
> Initialize page to NULL like in dequeue_huge_page_vma() so that page is
> not used uninitialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Thanks for the catch!

In my original patch, I initialized it in one function, but overlooked
this one.

Thanks,
Feng
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 3d9cd2722ea5..604e2d6bd506 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@  static
 struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol(struct hstate *h,
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	struct page *page;
+	struct page *page = NULL;
 	struct mempolicy *mpol;
 	gfp_t gfp_mask = htlb_alloc_mask(h);
 	int nid;