[PATCH] mm/memory_failure: Initialize extra_pins in me_pagecache_clean()

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Oct 21 2021 - 14:05:02 EST


Clang warns:

mm/memory-failure.c:892:6: error: variable 'extra_pins' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (!mapping) {
^~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:915:32: note: uninitialized use occurs here
if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins))
^~~~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:892:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
if (!mapping) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:879:6: error: variable 'extra_pins' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (PageAnon(p)) {
^~~~~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:915:32: note: uninitialized use occurs here
if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins))
^~~~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:879:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
if (PageAnon(p)) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/memory-failure.c:871:17: note: initialize the variable 'extra_pins' to silence this warning
bool extra_pins;
^
= 0
2 errors generated.

Initialize extra_pins to false so that it is not used uninitialized.

Fixes: d882a43a0011 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1487
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

I am aware the fixes tag is not stable. It is there to convey this
should be squashed into mm-shmem-dont-truncate-page-if-memory-failure-happens.patch.

mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 3b04f0361a58..dba5f0098165 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
{
int ret;
struct address_space *mapping;
- bool extra_pins;
+ bool extra_pins = false;

delete_from_lru_cache(p);

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