Re: [PATCH-next] mm/memcontrol.c: Fix potential uninitialized variable warning

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On Wed, 26 May 2021 15:36:02 -0400 Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the -Wno-maybe-uninitialized gcc option is not specified, compilation
> of memcontrol.c may generate the following warnings:
> 
> mm/memcontrol.c: In function ‘refill_obj_stock’:
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:127:17: warning: ‘flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   return !(flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF);
>           ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/memcontrol.c:3216:16: note: ‘flags’ was declared here
>   unsigned long flags;
>                 ^~~~~
> In file included from mm/memcontrol.c:29:
> mm/memcontrol.c: In function ‘uncharge_page’:
> ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:797:2: warning: ‘objcg’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   percpu_ref_put(&objcg->refcnt);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Fix that by properly initializing *pflags in get_obj_stock() and
> introducing a use_objcg bool variable in uncharge_page() to avoid
> potentially accessing the struct page data twice.
> 

Thanks.  I'll queue this as a fix against your "mm/memcg: optimize user
context object stock access".






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