On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Jianguo Wu wrote: > In get_mergeable_page() local variable page is not initialized, > it may hold a garbage value, when find_mergeable_vma() return NULL, > get_mergeable_page() may return a garbage value to the caller. > > So initialize page as NULL. > > Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujian...@huawei.com> > --- > mm/ksm.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c > index b6afe0c..87efbae 100644 > --- a/mm/ksm.c > +++ b/mm/ksm.c > @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static struct page *get_mergeable_page(struct rmap_item > *rmap_item) > struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm; > unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address; > struct vm_area_struct *vma; > - struct page *page; > + struct page *page = NULL; > > down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); > vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr); > -- > 1.7.1 >
When find_mergeable_vma returned NULL, NULL is assigned to page in "out" statement. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
