On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A newly added tracepoint in the hugepage code uses a variable in the
> error handling that is not initialized at that point:
>
> include/trace/events/huge_memory.h:81:230: error: 'isolated' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> The result is relatively harmless, as the trace data will in rare
> cases contain incorrect data.
>
> This works around the problem by adding an explicit initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")
Reviewed-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index b2db98136af9..bb3b763b1829 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
> pgtable_t pgtable;
> struct page *new_page;
> spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;
> - int isolated, result = 0;
> + int isolated = 0, result = 0;
> unsigned long hstart, hend;
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> unsigned long mmun_start; /* For mmu_notifiers */
>
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