linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm.c: don't use auto variable hs in newseg()

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Message-ID: <519693B8.10600@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 May 2013 16:31:52 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm.c: don't use auto variable hs in newseg()

> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:48:01 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] ipc/shm.c: don't use auto variable hs in newseg()
> 
> This patch fixes "warning: unused variable 'hs'" when !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> introduced by commit af73e4d9506d "hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned
> size request".
> 
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> ---
>  ipc/shm.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
> index e316cb9..9ff741a 100644
> --- a/ipc/shm.c
> +++ b/ipc/shm.c
> @@ -491,9 +491,8 @@ static int newseg(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_params *params)
>  
>  	sprintf (name, "SYSV%08x", key);
>  	if (shmflg & SHM_HUGETLB) {
> -		struct hstate *hs = hstate_sizelog((shmflg >> SHM_HUGE_SHIFT)
> -						& SHM_HUGE_MASK);
> -		size_t hugesize = ALIGN(size, huge_page_size(hs));
> +		size_t hugesize = ALIGN(size, huge_page_size(hstate_sizelog(
> +				(shmflg >> SHM_HUGE_SHIFT) & SHM_HUGE_MASK)));

NAK. This is uglier than before.
You should change !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE specific code instead.






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