[PATCH] mm: migrate: initialize err in do_migrate_pages

From: Jan Stancek
Date: Tue Jan 05 2021 - 09:16:07 EST


After commit 236c32eb1096 ("mm: migrate: clean up migrate_prep{_local}")',
do_migrate_pages can return uninitialized variable 'err' (which is
propagated to user-space as error) when 'from' and 'to' nodesets
are identical. This can be reproduced with LTP migrate_pages01,
which calls migrate_pages() with same set for both old/new_nodes.

Add 'err' initialization back.

Fixes: 236c32eb1096 ("mm: migrate: clean up migrate_prep{_local}")
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 8cf96bd21341..2c3a86502053 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, const nodemask_t *from,
const nodemask_t *to, int flags)
{
int busy = 0;
- int err;
+ int err = 0;
nodemask_t tmp;

migrate_prep();
--
2.18.1