linux-kernel - [PATCH] dma-pool: Fix an uninitialized variable bug in atomic_pool

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Message-ID: <20200826113330.GD393664@mwanda>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:33:30 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
Cc:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dma-pool: Fix an uninitialized variable bug in
 atomic_pool_expand()

The "page" pointer can be used with out being initialized.

Fixes: d7e673ec2c8e ("dma-pool: Only allocate from CMA when in same memory zone")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 kernel/dma/pool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/dma/pool.c b/kernel/dma/pool.c
index 06582b488e31..1281c0f0442b 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/pool.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/pool.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int atomic_pool_expand(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t pool_size,
 			      gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	unsigned int order;
-	struct page *page;
+	struct page *page = NULL;
 	void *addr;
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
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2.28.0