linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid uninitialized variable in tracepoint

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:18:40 +0200
From:	Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@...il.com>
To:	arnd@...db.de, dan.carpenter@...cle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, riel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid uninitialized variable in tracepoint

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the
> error handling that is not initialized at that point:
> 
> include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare
> cases contain incorrect data.
> 
> This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")
Reviewed-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@...il.com>
> 
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	pgtable_t pgtable;
>  	struct page *new_page;
>  	spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;
> -	int isolated, result = 0;
> +	int isolated = 0, result = 0;
>  	unsigned long hstart, hend;
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
>