[PATCH v2] shmem: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 16:57:58 EST


After enabling -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings, we get a false-postive
warning for shmem:

mm/shmem.c: In function âshmem_getpage_gfpâ:
include/linux/spinlock.h:332:21: error: âinfoâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

This can be easily avoided, since the correct 'info' pointer is known
at the time we first enter the function, so we can simply move the
initialization up. Moving it before the first label avoids the
warning and lets us remove two later initializations.

Note that the function is so hard to read that it not only confuses
the compiler, but also most readers and without this patch it could\
easily break if one of the 'goto's changed.

Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2368133.html
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index ad7813d73ea7..95c4bb690f98 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1537,7 +1537,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
struct mm_struct *fault_mm, int *fault_type)
{
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
- struct shmem_inode_info *info;
+ struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo;
struct mm_struct *charge_mm;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
@@ -1587,7 +1587,6 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
* Fast cache lookup did not find it:
* bring it back from swap or allocate.
*/
- info = SHMEM_I(inode);
sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
charge_mm = fault_mm ? : current->mm;

@@ -1835,7 +1834,6 @@ alloc_nohuge: page = shmem_alloc_and_acct_page(gfp, info, sbinfo,
put_page(page);
}
if (error == -ENOSPC && !once++) {
- info = SHMEM_I(inode);
spin_lock_irq(&info->lock);
shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock);
--
2.9.0