Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: memcontrol - uninitialised return value

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 06 2010 - 17:25:18 EST


On Wed, 5 May 2010 14:21:49 +0300
Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Only an out of memory error will cause ret to be set.
>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 90e32b2..09af773 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3464,7 +3464,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
> int type = MEMFILE_TYPE(cft->private);
> u64 usage;
> int size = 0;
> - int i, j, ret;
> + int i, j, ret = 0;
>
> mutex_lock(&memcg->thresholds_lock);
> if (type == _MEM)

afacit the return value of cftype.unregister_event() is always ignored
anyway. Perhaps it should be changed to void-returning, or fixed.


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