linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: fix uninit'ed variable warning

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:03:42 -0500
From:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: fix uninit'ed variable warning

This patch fixes an uninitialized variable warning in
alloc_zspage().  It also fixes the secondary issue of
prev_page leaving scope on each loop iteration.  The only
reason this ever worked was because prev_page was occupying
the same space on the stack on each iteration.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c b/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
index fb54a9b..4af3dd6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static void init_zspage(struct page *first_page, struct size_class *class)
 static struct page *alloc_zspage(struct size_class *class, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	int i, error;
-	struct page *first_page = NULL;
+	struct page *first_page = NULL, *uninitialized_var(prev_page);
 
 	/*
 	 * Allocate individual pages and link them together as:
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_zspage(struct size_class *class, gfp_t flags)
 	 */
 	error = -ENOMEM;
 	for (i = 0; i < class->pages_per_zspage; i++) {
-		struct page *page, *prev_page;
+		struct page *page;
 
 		page = alloc_page(flags);
 		if (!page)
-- 
1.7.9.5

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