Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: shmem: add mTHP support for anonymous shmem

[Baolin Wang]

Hi,

On 2024/5/7 18:46, kernel test robot wrote:
> > > mm/shmem.c:1780:10: warning: variable 'folio' is used uninitialized whenever 'while' loop exits because its condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>      1780 |                 while (suitable_orders) {
>           |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     mm/shmem.c:1795:7: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>      1795 |         if (!folio)
>           |              ^~~~~
>     mm/shmem.c:1780:10: note: remove the condition if it is always true
>      1780 |                 while (suitable_orders) {
>           |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>           |                        1
>     mm/shmem.c:1750:21: note: initialize the variable 'folio' to silence this warning
>      1750 |         struct folio *folio;
>           |                            ^
>           |                             = NULL
>     mm/shmem.c:1564:20: warning: unused function 'shmem_show_mpol' [-Wunused-function]
>      1564 | static inline void shmem_show_mpol(struct seq_file *seq, struct mempolicy *mpol)

Thanks for reporting. Will add below change to avoid the warning:
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index d603e36e0f4f..fd2cb2e73a21 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static struct folio 
*shmem_alloc_and_add_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf,
        struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
        struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf ? vmf->vma : NULL;
        unsigned long suitable_orders;
-       struct folio *folio;
+       struct folio *folio = NULL;
        long pages;
        int error, order;