[PATCH] mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning

From: Arnd Bergmann

Date: Fri Feb 13 2026 - 07:39:19 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

When the -fsanitize=bounds sanitizer is enabled, gcc-16 sometimes runs
into a corner case in the read_ctrl_pos() pos function, where it sees
possible undefined behavior from the 'tier' index overflowing, presumably
in the case that this was called with a negative tier:

In function 'get_tier_idx',
inlined from 'isolate_folios' at mm/vmscan.c:4671:14:
mm/vmscan.c: In function 'isolate_folios':
mm/vmscan.c:4645:29: error: 'pv.refaulted' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]

Part of the problem seems to be that read_ctrl_pos() has unusual calling
conventions since commit 37a260870f2c ("mm/mglru: rework type selection")
where passing MAX_NR_TIERS makes it accumulate all tiers but passing a
smaller positive number makes it read a single tier instead.

Avoid this case by splitting read_ctrl_pos() into two separate helpers
that each only do one of the two cases. This avoids the warning as far
as I can tell, and seems a bit easier to understand to me.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
This is currently the only such warning I get from gcc-16.0.1, and
none from any other version.

I'm not overly happy about having to work around it with a random
code chance, but hopefully the version I ended up with makes
sense regardless.
---
mm/vmscan.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index eaf795c1cfb3..602c955d1f30 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3159,20 +3159,15 @@ struct ctrl_pos {
static void read_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type, int tier, int gain,
struct ctrl_pos *pos)
{
- int i;
struct lru_gen_folio *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);

pos->gain = gain;
- pos->refaulted = pos->total = 0;
-
- for (i = tier % MAX_NR_TIERS; i <= min(tier, MAX_NR_TIERS - 1); i++) {
- pos->refaulted += lrugen->avg_refaulted[type][i] +
- atomic_long_read(&lrugen->refaulted[hist][type][i]);
- pos->total += lrugen->avg_total[type][i] +
- lrugen->protected[hist][type][i] +
- atomic_long_read(&lrugen->evicted[hist][type][i]);
- }
+ pos->refaulted = lrugen->avg_refaulted[type][tier] +
+ atomic_long_read(&lrugen->refaulted[hist][type][tier]);
+ pos->total = lrugen->avg_total[type][tier] +
+ lrugen->protected[hist][type][tier] +
+ atomic_long_read(&lrugen->evicted[hist][type][tier]);
}

static void reset_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type, bool carryover)
@@ -4640,6 +4635,24 @@ static int get_tier_idx(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type)
return tier - 1;
}

+static void aggregate_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type, int gain,
+ struct ctrl_pos *pos)
+{
+ struct lru_gen_folio *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
+
+ pos->gain = gain;
+ pos->refaulted = pos->total = 0;
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < MAX_NR_TIERS; i++) {
+ pos->refaulted += lrugen->avg_refaulted[type][i] +
+ atomic_long_read(&lrugen->refaulted[hist][type][i]);
+ pos->total += lrugen->avg_total[type][i] +
+ lrugen->protected[hist][type][i] +
+ atomic_long_read(&lrugen->evicted[hist][type][i]);
+ }
+}
+
static int get_type_to_scan(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness)
{
struct ctrl_pos sp, pv;
@@ -4653,8 +4666,8 @@ static int get_type_to_scan(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness)
* Compare the sum of all tiers of anon with that of file to determine
* which type to scan.
*/
- read_ctrl_pos(lruvec, LRU_GEN_ANON, MAX_NR_TIERS, swappiness, &sp);
- read_ctrl_pos(lruvec, LRU_GEN_FILE, MAX_NR_TIERS, MAX_SWAPPINESS - swappiness, &pv);
+ aggregate_ctrl_pos(lruvec, LRU_GEN_ANON, swappiness, &sp);
+ aggregate_ctrl_pos(lruvec, LRU_GEN_FILE, MAX_SWAPPINESS - swappiness, &pv);

return positive_ctrl_err(&sp, &pv);
}
--
2.39.5