Re: [PATCH, v2] Fix potentially derefencing uninitialized 'r'.

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 08:25:46 EST


On Tue 21-02-12 17:58:23, Geunsik Lim wrote:
> From: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The warning seems to be bogus. The only caller is for_each_mem_pfn_range
and even if we had type->cnt == 0 we would return before accessing r.
I guess it would be more reasonable to silent the warning by
__maybe_unused.

>
> v2: reorganize the code with better way to avoid compilation warning
> via the comment of Andrew Morton.
>
> v1: struct memblock_region 'r' will not be initialized potentially
> because of while() condition in __next_mem_pfn_range()function.
> Solve the compilation warning related problem by initializing
> r data structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 77b5f22..b8c40c5 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -673,14 +673,18 @@ void __init_memblock __next_mem_pfn_range(int *idx, int nid,
> struct memblock_type *type = &memblock.memory;
> struct memblock_region *r;
>
> - while (++*idx < type->cnt) {
> + do {
> r = &type->regions[*idx];
>
> + if (++*idx < type->cnt) {
> if (PFN_UP(r->base) >= PFN_DOWN(r->base + r->size))
> continue;
> if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES || nid == r->nid)
> break;
> - }
> + } else
> + break;
> + } while (1);
> +
> if (*idx >= type->cnt) {
> *idx = -1;
> return;
> --
> 1.7.8.1
>
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