linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:53:07 +0300
From:	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
CC:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma_prepare
 callers

On Jun. 30, 2008, 22:00 +0300, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> gcc 4.3.0 correctly emits the following warnings.
>> When a vma covering addr is found, find_vma_prepare indeed returns without
>> setting pprev, rb_link, and rb_parent.
> 
> That's amusing, thank you.
> 
> You may wonder how the vma rb_tree has been working all these years
> despite that.  The answer is that we only use find_vma_prepare when
> about to insert a new vma: if there's anything already there, it's
> either an error condition, or we go off and unmap the overlap without
> taking any interest in those uninitialized values for linking.
> 
> It would be nicer to initialize them, and your patch is certainly
> nice and simple.  Would it have the effect, that it returns with
> vma == *pprev when addr falls within an existing vma?
> That would be a sensible outcome, I think.

No, *pprev will be set to the last parent encountered with this
patch, but doing what you suggested is possible, though I doubt
it matters since apparently nobody is using pprev in this path
otherwise stuff would've just broken.

Benny

> 
> Hugh
> 
>> [warnings snipped]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/mmap.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
>> index 3354fdd..81b9873 100644
>> --- a/mm/mmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
>> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ find_vma_prepare(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>  		if (vma_tmp->vm_end > addr) {
>>  			vma = vma_tmp;
>>  			if (vma_tmp->vm_start <= addr)
>> -				return vma;
>> +				break;
>>  			__rb_link = &__rb_parent->rb_left;
>>  		} else {
>>  			rb_prev = __rb_parent;

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