Hello, On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:08:17AM -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Static analysis reports this problem > percpu.c:2945:6: warning: Assigned value is garbage or undefined > upa = best_upa; > ^ ~~~~~~~~ > best_upa may not be set, so initialize it. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/percpu.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c > index a257c3efdf18b..6578b706fae81 100644 > --- a/mm/percpu.c > +++ b/mm/percpu.c > @@ -2916,6 +2916,7 @@ static struct pcpu_alloc_info * __init __flatten pcpu_build_alloc_info( > * Related to atom_size, which could be much larger than the unit_size. > */ > last_allocs = INT_MAX; > + best_upa = max_upa; > for (upa = max_upa; upa; upa--) { > int allocs = 0, wasted = 0; > > -- > 2.26.3 > I think the proper fix would be: best_upa = 0; for (...) { } BUG_ON(!best_upa); upa = best_upa; If you're fine with this I'll make the changes and apply it to for-5.13-fixes. Can you also tell me what static analysis tool produced this? I'm just a little curious because this code hasn't changed in several years so I'd have expected some static analyzer to have caught this by now. Thanks, Dennis