On Wed 03-08-16 22:19:59, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> mm/oom_kill.c: In function ‘task_will_free_mem’:
> mm/oom_kill.c:767: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this
> function
>
> If __task_will_free_mem() is never called inside the for_each_process()
> loop, ret will not be initialized.
>
> Fixes: 1af8bb43269563e4 ("mm, oom: fortify task_will_free_mem()")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Thanks for catching that!
> ---
> Untested. I'm not familiar with the code, hence the default value of
> true was deducted from the logic in the loop (return false as soon as
> __task_will_free_mem() has returned false).
> ---
> mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 7d0a275df822e9e1..d53a9aa00977cbd0 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
> {
> struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;
> struct task_struct *p;
> - bool ret;
> + bool ret = true;
>
> /*
> * Skip tasks without mm because it might have passed its exit_mm and
> --
> 1.9.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
