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 <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>