Re: [PATCH 13/16] mm/page_alloc: init local variable buddy_pfn

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Tue Sep 13 2022 - 05:06:28 EST




On 9/9/22 14:54, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> The local variable buddy_pfn could be passed to buddy_merge_likely()
> without initialization if the passed in order is MAX_ORDER - 1. This
> looks buggy but buddy_pfn won't be used in this case as there's a
> order >= MAX_ORDER - 2 check. Init buddy_pfn to 0 anyway to avoid
> possible future misuse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index e1c7f98cff96..63ad25e86010 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> int migratetype, fpi_t fpi_flags)
> {
> struct capture_control *capc = task_capc(zone);
> - unsigned long buddy_pfn;
> + unsigned long buddy_pfn = 0;
> unsigned long combined_pfn;
> struct page *buddy;
> bool to_tail;