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mm: avoid uninitialized variable in tracepoint

Message ID 4117363.Ys1FTDH7Wz@wuerfel
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Arnd Bergmann Jan. 18, 2016, 8:50 p.m. UTC
A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the
error handling that is not initialized at that point:

include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare
cases contain incorrect data.

This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")

Comments

Ebru Akagunduz Jan. 18, 2016, 10:18 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the

> error handling that is not initialized at that point:

> 

> include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

> 

> The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare

> cases contain incorrect data.

> 

> This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")

Reviewed-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>

> 

> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c

> index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644

> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c

> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c

> @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,

>  	pgtable_t pgtable;

>  	struct page *new_page;

>  	spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;

> -	int isolated, result = 0;

> +	int isolated = 0, result = 0;

>  	unsigned long hstart, hend;

>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

>  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

>
Kirill A. Shutemov Jan. 18, 2016, 11:03 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the

> error handling that is not initialized at that point:

> 

> include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

> 

> The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare

> cases contain incorrect data.

> 

> This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")


There's the same patch in mm tree, but it got lost on the way to Linus'
tree:

https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead-fix.patch

Andrew?

> 

> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c

> index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644

> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c

> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c

> @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,

>  	pgtable_t pgtable;

>  	struct page *new_page;

>  	spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;

> -	int isolated, result = 0;

> +	int isolated = 0, result = 0;

>  	unsigned long hstart, hend;

>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

>  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

> 


-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
David Rientjes Jan. 19, 2016, 10:17 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> > A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the

> > error handling that is not initialized at that point:

> > 

> > include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

> > 

> > The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare

> > cases contain incorrect data.

> > 

> > This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.

> > 

> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> > Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")

> 

> There's the same patch in mm tree, but it got lost on the way to Linus'

> tree:

> 

> https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead-fix.patch

> 

> Andrew?

> 


Looks like the patch got the wrong title, 
mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead-fix.patch, since the subject 
is "khugepaged: avoid usage of uninitialized variable 'isolated'".

Anyway, feel free to add

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>


to either patch.

> > 

> > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c

> > index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644

> > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c

> > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c

> > @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,

> >  	pgtable_t pgtable;

> >  	struct page *new_page;

> >  	spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;

> > -	int isolated, result = 0;

> > +	int isolated = 0, result = 0;

> >  	unsigned long hstart, hend;

> >  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

> >  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

> >
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@  static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	pgtable_t pgtable;
 	struct page *new_page;
 	spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;
-	int isolated, result = 0;
+	int isolated = 0, result = 0;
 	unsigned long hstart, hend;
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */