[PATCH for-3.4-fixes] cgroup: cgroup_attach_task() could return-errno after success

[Tejun Heo]

61d1d219c4 "cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set" made
cgroup_task_migrate() return void.  An unfortunate side effect was
that cgroup_attach_task() was depending on that function's return
value to clear its @retval on the success path.  On cgroup mounts
without any subsystem with ->can_attach() callback,
cgroup_attach_task() ended up returning @retval without initializing
it on success.

For some reason, gcc failed to warn about it and it didn't cause
cgroup_attach_task() to return non-zero value in many cases, probably
due to difference in register allocation.  When the problem
materializes, systemd fails to populate /systemd cgroup mount and
fails to boot.

Fix it by initializing @retval to zero on declaration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203282354440.25526@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Jiri, can you please confirm the fix?

Thanks.

 kernel/cgroup.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index f4ea4b6..ed64cca 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
  */
 int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	int retval;
+	int retval = 0;
 	struct cgroup_subsys *ss, *failed_ss = NULL;
 	struct cgroup *oldcgrp;
 	struct cgroupfs_root *root = cgrp->root;
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