Clang warns: mm/memory-failure.c:892:6: error: variable 'extra_pins' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (!mapping) { ^~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:915:32: note: uninitialized use occurs here if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins)) ^~~~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:892:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!mapping) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:879:6: error: variable 'extra_pins' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (PageAnon(p)) { ^~~~~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:915:32: note: uninitialized use occurs here if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins)) ^~~~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:879:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (PageAnon(p)) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mm/memory-failure.c:871:17: note: initialize the variable 'extra_pins' to silence this warning bool extra_pins; ^ = 0 2 errors generated. Initialize extra_pins to false so that it is not used uninitialized. Fixes: d882a43a0011 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1487 Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I am aware the fixes tag is not stable. It is there to convey this should be squashed into mm-shmem-dont-truncate-page-if-memory-failure-happens.patch. mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 3b04f0361a58..dba5f0098165 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p) { int ret; struct address_space *mapping; - bool extra_pins; + bool extra_pins = false; delete_from_lru_cache(p); -- 2.33.1.637.gf443b226ca