linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/6] mm: pagewalk: add back missing variable initializations

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Message-ID: <YwY+1xD52ep54M3y@dev-arch.thelio-3990X>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:08:07 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/6] mm: pagewalk: add back missing variable
 initializations

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:00:11PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> These initializations accidentially got lost during refactoring.
> 
> The first one can't actually be used without initialization, because
> walk_p4d_range() is only called when one of the 4 callbacks is set, but relying
> on this seems fragile.
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

> ---
>  mm/pagewalk.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Looks like my testing had just the right callbacks set so I never hit this. In 
> case you want to have this squashed into the original one just drop me a note 
> and I'll redo the whole series.
> 
> diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
> index d8be8a30b272..22e4bcca9bee 100644
> --- a/mm/pagewalk.c
> +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int walk_p4d_range(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  
>  	p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
>  	do {
> -		int err;
> +		int err = 0;
>  
>  		next = p4d_addr_end(addr, end);
>  		if (p4d_none_or_clear_bad(p4d)) {
> @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static int walk_pgd_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  	else
>  		pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, addr);
>  	do {
> -		int err;
> +		int err = 0;
>  
>  		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>  		if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd)) {
> @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  	const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops;
>  
>  	for (; addr < end; addr = next) {
> -		int err;
> +		int err = 0;
>  		pte_t *pte = huge_pte_offset(walk->mm, addr & hmask, sz);
>  
>  		next = hugetlb_entry_end(h, addr, end);
> -- 
> 2.37.2
> 
> -- 
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